Experts call on businesses to overcome ‘systemic challenges’ that lead to ethnic minority workers being expected to ‘act white’
Nearly half of ethnic minority staff in the UK feel they need to hide their true personalities at work, according to a survey.
The study, carried out by consultancy Utopia before coronavirus and which surveyed 2,000 UK workers, found BAME individuals felt pressure to aspire to a certain expression of professionalism that favoured their white counterparts. As a result, 49 per cent said they felt they had to mask part of their identity to fit in at the office, compared to 43 per cent of white workers who said this.
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