Corporate workplace culture has been impacted by recent world events, including the coronavirus pandemic and the #BlackLivesMatter protests, in several significant ways, according to new data released today by HR compliance training and data analytics company Emtrain.
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In a comparison of responses collected from more than 100,000 employees at 145 companies prior to March 15th (and presented in the Emtrain Workplace Culture Report 2020) to over 20,000 responses collected from after March, 15, Emtrain found:
- A 15% drop in the likelihood that employees would say “no” to an inappropriate request from a manager.
- A 7% increase in people having to minimize their heritage or personal identity to fit in at work
- A 9% decrease in employees who say their workplace culture is “healthy” in the area of harassment
- 7% fewer employees reporting “strong and respectful relationships” between age groups
- A 10% decline in people who say behavior in their workplace is governed by “well-understood norms”
On a positive note, since we’ve all moved to remote work and Zoom meetings, 8% more people say that their coworkers can accurately pick up the mood in the room.
“These changes may not sound dramatic, but believe me they are,” said Emtrain founder and CEO Janine Yancey. “To have employee attitudes shift this much on such key culture issues in just a few months means there are some major disruptions happening in the workplace and corporate leaders should see this as a wakeup call, particularly the decrease in people believing there are strong, well-understood norms of behavior in their workplace. This is one of the number-one indicators of overall workplace health and to see that drop is a red flag.”
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