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In December last year the civil service scrapped unconscious bias training and urged other public sector employers to do the same. Photograph: The Businessman/Alamy Stock Photo
When former KPMG boss Bill Michael resigned for telling his staff to stop “playing the victim card” and describing the concept of unconscious bias as “complete and utter crap”, he reignited an ongoing debate about workplace equality.
“There is no such thing as unconscious bias, I don’t buy it,” Michael said in his now infamous virtual meeting. “Because after every single unconscious bias training (UBT) that has ever been done, nothing’s ever improved.”
A British holiday park company has agreed to change its work culture after it was found they were operating a ‘surname blacklist’ that excluded Gypsy and Traveller families.
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