COVID-19 Impact on Diversity and Inclusion

The researches from global corridors reveal that despite the companies putting out messages and brave faces, the diversity and inclusion initiatives need more, especially with COVID having changed the face of work and associated priorities. It is important for enterprises to ask themselves the right questions to foster diversity and inclusion during and post the pandemic. While it may be less said, the impact of challenges like emotional and mental well-being in the diverse employees, has a far-reaching impact in developing nations. While extended work hours seem to be the common normal across the working population, its impact on women seems to be far-reaching with concerns of safety of people at the workplace and welfare of family at the other end. A lot of new perspectives about D&I are evolving during the pandemic with a potential to have adverse domino effects. The single-parent females, sole breadwinners taking care of their parents and job cuts might be putting in a lot of psychological stress on the diverse and inclusive population at work. Leaders have to look at the world from a new order and provide more than adequate assistance to the employees in need.