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A series created to help you recognize the early signs of workplace discrimination that you shouldn't ignore or overlook.
The Red Flags Signaling Workplace Discrimination
The biggest challenge employees face when being discriminated against in the workplace, is recognizing the behavior for what it is so that they can confidently call it workplace discrimination. Many employees assume that if they are being discriminated against at work, it will be obvious. However, workplace discrimination typically begins with an inappropriate joke that no one else is bothered by or a decision that feels unfair, but must be fine since no other employee seems to question the subjective reason it's based on.
There is a comfort in believing we will recognize workplace discrimination when it happens, but this works against us when our questions or concerns are dismissed as us overreacting. Since we default to believing we would recognize and be certain if it was workplace discrimination, we are more inclined to also believe it when others tell us we're making a big deal out of something that is not a big deal.
Unfortunately, modern-day workplace discrimination is almost never as blatant and obvious as we'd like to believe it would be. Instead workplace discrimination is subtle, difficult to pinpoint and often overlooked by other witnesses who aren't negatively impacted directly. That's why we've written this series to help you identify workplace discrimination when it happens.
Each post in this series reviews a red flag of workplace discrimination that you should watch out for. None of these red flags alone is confirmation of workplace discrimination, but each is a sign you should begin documenting incidents and capturing evidence to see if a pattern of discrimination emerges.
What are the early warning signs of workplace discrimination?
We've broken it into four different posts with each describing an early warning sign and what it looks like in the workplace.
Remember -- HR protects the company, so protecting your career requires you to be diligent, aware and proactive.
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