Marcus Whyte News Today

British companies have failed to significantly hire and promote more Black senior leaders in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, according to a new study. In a poll of 2,000 professional office workers, 70 per cent said that work to address racism in the workplace since the 2020 killing, which sparked a global wave of anti-racism protests, had begun in their organisations.

Race progress: companies are failing to hire and promote enough senior leaders from ethnically diverse backgrounds, a poll has found.

Nearly 70% of office workers say their firms have not increased number of black, Asian or ethnic minority leaders