Research from the Center for Talent Innovation shows that closeted employees are far more likely to feel that their careers have stagnated, as compared to openly LGBT employees. Fortunately, it turns out the opposite is true.
Many people might imagine it’s easier to advance at work if you’re in the closet. Watch the course for free until June 30, 2021. As an openly lesbian professional and the creator of the LinkedIn Learning course, Succeeding as an LGBT professional, I want to share four key benefits that make life better as an 'out' LGBT professional. Today, LGBT employees in the United States, and in many places around the world, are now legally protected from workplace discrimination, yet nearly 1 in 4 people say they hide their identity at work and worry they would be treated differently if they came out, according to recent LinkedIn data.ĭuring Pride Month, it’s worth celebrating the advantages of being out at work. It’s a huge difference in less than two decades.” “By 2006 when I interviewed with a professional services firm and mentioned doing some work for an LGBT nonprofit,” Bennett recalls, “the interviewer ran to the elevator to tell me they gave generously to the Human Rights Campaign.
Many professionals have stories like Elaine Bennett, who recalls starting her Wall Street career in the late 1980s with “a photo of my cat on my desk…with my partner nearly cut off on the far side.”īut thankfully, times have changed. Often – and for obvious historical reasons – the discussion around being out at work has focused on the challenges.
0 kommentar(er)
