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Robert Mobley, a man over 40 living in the United States of America. He experiences anxiety and depression, and earned a finance degree from Morehouse College. Between 2017 and 2024, he applied for over 100 jobs at companies using Workday’s AI-driven hiring tools but faced rejection each time. He alleges that these AI systems rely […]

Did you know that approximately 15–20% of the population is neurodivergent?  This means about 1 in 7 people process and interact with the world differently.  Despite this, neurodivergent individuals often encounter significant challenges in the workplace, ranging from misunderstandings during hiring to difficulties navigating environments that fail to accommodate their needs. In fact, many choose

Diverse workforces are fast becoming a priority for companies everywhere. Organisations are beginning to realise that hiring diverse is a financially prudent decision, and one that is vital to attract the best talent. Now employers are more keen than ever to invite talent of different social identities, be it gender, sexuality, race or disability. But

Let’s say, there is a company with a diverse workforce.  It has employees from different parts of India as well as foreign team members from European countries. The company’s dress code is “business casual’’. The Indian employees wear traditional attire like sarees, kurtas, and salwar kameez. When international colleagues visit the India office, they prefer

Meet Tara, a Software Engineer working in Bengaluru. She uses a wheelchair due to a spinal cord injury. She faces several mobility challenges that her peers often take for granted.  She usually uses the ramp in the office to move between floors.  But the ramp is poorly maintained and extremely narrow, making it quite difficult

In 2023, a Linkedin user wrote a post venting about sending out 160 job applications and participating in 20+ of interviews only to be later “ghosted” by organisations. This post went viral. Among the over 1.5K comments that the post garnered, many echoed similar frustrations.  But how could this be? The data paints a completely