Here’s a problem you might not see coming: Let’s say you have an employee who belongs to a protected class, and whose skills you believe will help when relating to others of the same protected class—language or cultural awareness skills, for example. Before you decide to assign work to the employee based on those skills, consider whether doing so is, in effect, unspoken discrimination.
Assigning black staff to black clients: Is that bias?
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