Your employees or team members will remember how you responded to their lives and their needs during the pandemic. How your organization looks, feels, succeeds, or fails when this ends largely depends on the actions of institutional leadership.
What decisions are you making right now?
History is being recorded in this moment even as events continue to unfold. The pandemic has exacerbated the impact of systems of oppression that target the lives of people with marginalized identities, and the workplace is no exception.
Instead of looking to past atrocities and imagining what you would have done, this is a perfect time to reflect on what you are doing right now.
Are you centering the voices and needs of marginalized people and communities in your decision-making?
Think of your people, policies, and practices. Are you putting people or profit at the center?
Are the conditions within your organization primed to support people with marginalized identities in this critical time, or does your organizational climate replicate and amplify those already-existing inequities that make it harder for them to survive?
“Times were hard for everybody” will not be a satisfactory answer in the long view of history, because times aren’t hard for everybody equitably right now. What are you doing to produce more equitable and socially just outcomes right now? Because the people will remember.
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From Aspiring Humanitarian, Relando Thompkins-Jones
