The benefit of inclusion. (Business).If you're out of the closet and also feeling out of the loop at work lately, a recent survey suggests you may be in good company. After asking 2,000 employees at a number of companies nationwide how various demographic segments fit in at work on a scale of 1 to 10, a San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden group found that out gays and lesbians were ranked the lowest, right after Muslims. "You are going to be judged on [being gay according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. ] whether or not you're a team player," said Dulcy Anderson Anderson, river, Canada Anderson, river, c.465 mi (750 km) long, rising in several lakes in N central Northwest Territories, Canada. It meanders north and west before receiving the Carnwath River and flowing north to Liverpool Bay, an arm of the Arctic , director of research for the MK Level Playing Held Institute, a nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. employment research group. And that judgment, she said, often leads to a sense by gay employees that they won't be given the same opportunities as others to advance in their careers. As a result, they will be much less likely to recommend their employer to job seekers job seeker also job·seek·er n. One who seeks employment. , colleagues, and customers. "What this says to an employer is that they really do need to be conscious of these issues and work harder to think about how a gay employee is going to fit," Anderson said. |
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