News Round-Up
8 May 2024
AstraZeneca Withdrawing Covid Vaccine Worldwide
8 May 2024
by Will Jones
How to End Workplace Woke Groupthink
8 May 2024
More and more employers are waking up to the damage being done by their woke activist HR departments. C. J. Strachan draws on insights from management theory to explain how to dispel the groupthink.
Are we really all 'progressing' towards a happy future, where technology unites humanity in a world without borders? Dr. David McGrogan isn't convinced and sets out his own predictions for the future.
VisitBritain has left many bewildered with its latest woke gobbledegook, substituting terms such as "man hours" with "person hours" in an attempt to be more inclusive.
Small businesses are drowning in HR red tape, says C. J. Strachan. The slew of EDI rules is the last straw for British businesses straining under the burden of bureaucracy.
DEI initiatives and woke ideology are not making workplaces friendlier but hostile to anyone not fully on board with them, writes Raquel Rosario Sánchez. "The pitfalls are not theoretical to me – I’ve lived them."
Dr Kirsty Miller was shocked to discover clinical psychologists sharing memes mocking their patients on social media. The problem, she argues, is the profession has been taken over by Critical Social Justice ideology.
Given the massive amount of woke bureaucracy imposed on NHS organisations by the Department of Health, it's hardly surprising that the hiring of DEI staff has been one of the fastest growing areas in our failing NHS.
Will discrimination on the basis of intelligence be banned next? That's the suggestion Lionel Shriver explores in her new novel MANIA, based on the craziness of the last few years. Read her interview with Laura Dodsworth.
It's not only large corporations with hyperactive HR departments that are succumbing to efficiency-sapping wokery, says C.J. Strachan. Small and medium-sized enterprises are being swallowed up by DEI as well.
Woke HR has created a workplace that is failing workers and their employers because the creative mavericks are isolated, sidelined and silenced, while those who are promoted are the appeasers, the cowards and the mediocre.
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