From the CEO: Racial Injustice at Work Costs Us Billions

The Society for Human Resource Management's (SHRM's) new report, The Cost of Racial Injustice, released last month, found that one-third of Black employees faced unfair treatment at work based on race and ethnicity in the past year. The report also previews SHRM's new Empathy Index-a measurement tool that enables organizations to take a quick-pulse assessment of inclusion-oriented behaviors in the workplace, tracking their progress toward creating more-empathetic workplaces and benchmarking them against the most successful companies in the U.S. and their own business competition. Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., SHRM-SCP, is president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management.