Diversity in the workplace: What’s the state of play in 2021? With every passing year, more and more companies pledge to improve their efforts when it comes to workplace diversity, in terms of both hiring policies and active involvement in company affairs. Particularly after the worldwide reckoning of 2020, business leaders are addressing both their past mistakes and the global drive for change and accountability within enterprises of all sizes. However, there has also been understandable criticism of just how much C-suite staff are learning from this process, with accusations of “performative wokeness” being especially common after the racial uprising in June 2020.