Almost two-thirds of UK workers who have taken part in diversity training say they have had to “conceal what they really think” for fear of losing their job, according to a new survey from British think tank, the Free Speech Union (FSI).
800 UK workers were surveyed for the study, all of whom had participated in some form of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Climate (EDIC) training with either a current or former employer.
The representative survey of British workers said that ECIC training has become “endemic” in UK workplaces, with 65 per cent of employers saying they had undergone some form of diversity training by either a present or former employer.
The survey from the advocacy group found that the training was “particularly unpopular” among minorities and members of the LGBT community, with 62 per cent of workers surveyed saying they had to conceal what they “really think about the training they’ve received,” including 22 per cent who “have been compelled to say things that they don’t really believe.”
FSI said this rose to 31 per cent among Black and Asian respondents.
Forty-five per cent of workers surveyed also reported that the training they’d received “conflicted with their personal, religious or political views,” with 31% saying they had left a job because of their employer’s promotion of woke ideology.
This figure was higher among minority groups – 43% for Black employees, 46% for Asian and 46% for LGBT. Moreover, 36 per cent of respondents said they had witnessed staff being penalised in some way by their current employer because they had challenged the training, including 12 per cent who said they had witnessed staff being sacked for doing so.
The author of the report, Thomas Harris, Director of Data and Impact at FSI, said there was “no evidence” that the current approach is making Britain’s offices more welcoming, friendlier places to work, while claiming plenty of evidence proves that such training is turning workplaces into hostile environments, particularly for minorities and “those who do not subscribe to woke ideology.”
“We knew already from our casework that EDI training has been suppressing free speech in the workplace, but even we were shocked to discover the extent of the self-censorship going on – 62 per cent of the employees who go on the training have had to conceal what they really think,” Mr Harris said.
“Authoritarian EDI training has become a fiscal drag on the bottom lines of British business. While millions of pounds continue to be spent on these courses, our research demonstrates that the most ambitious employees are leaving companies because of it and, ironically, the training conflicts most with the values held by the minority groups it purports to benefit.”
The survey comes as UK Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch claimed last month that diversity and inclusion initiatives have been shown to be “ineffective and counterproductive,” following an Independent Inclusion at Work Panel which gathered views from employers on diversity and inclusion policies and practises in Britain.
In February, Gript reported on how mandatory diversity, gender and unconscious bias training had been introduced for staff in the Irish Defence Forces, with a training document seen by this publication.
A source within the Defence Forces told Gript that there are numerous people unhappy with the decision to make the training compulsory, and that all members have been told they will have to participate in a quiz at the end of the training programme, which they must pass.
In documents seen by Gript, members are told that unconscious bias “is natural and we all have it,” “is unintended” and “can be addressed.”
Prior to that, in January, it emerged that financial institution PTSB, which emerged from the merger of Irish Permanent and TSB Bank, had introduced a mandatory DEI training module for staff, instructing them to “know your privilege,” and informing staff that those who are white have inherent advantages over those who are not.
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DEI – didn’t earn it.
EDI/DEI is an insidious intrusion in the workplace. Busybodies are forcing partisan politics on their colleagues. This is by definition harassment, and it is only a matter of time before it is legally challenged and demonstrated to be so.
People really have had enough of this imported cultural Marxism. It has no place in a democratic legal order.
At least it keeps the trainers in a job as otherwise they would be on the dole. The training is a joke as it does not take class and such like into account. Being as bent as a two bob note is fine if you are an Irish senator and being trans is great if you own a sleazy pub owner or are in tight with Mary Lou or if functionally illiterate Trinity students vote you into a cushy number. Try sidling up to kids in less salubrious surroundings and see how long it takes for the ambulance to bring you to A&E
There are far too many university graduates who are “functionally illiterate” and “succeed” because of being able to parrot the correct answers but not solve problems working from first principles. Perhaps this is why so many graduates are eager to go into management? We should scrap all the worthless, Mickey Mouse degrees. University entrance should not be based primarily on high marks for the leaving certificate results but on an entrance test examining the ability of a prospective student to read intelligently and ability to reason logically.
As I write this, the Transgender Flag is flying outside the Civic Offices were I live. There is an element in society that wants to impose their beliefs on others. They love CONTROLLING others. Diversity training is just one aspect of their control system.
Are the civic offices flying the tricolour too? Please say yes. Dún Laoghaire /Rathdown coco give a good explanation about the protocol of flag flying and in particular, the respect that must be given the tricolour. They fly the pride flag for one week only, during pride week and they are a pretty woke council. The pride flag has no place on any civic building as it represents a fringe culture imposed on mainstream society, creating division and partisan politics. For me, the pride flag represents sexuality, and not the sexuality of man and woman that got us here today. It represents the sexuality that we rejected in the referendum on the constitution. Choosing to fly it on a civic building represents the values of the council, who seem to stand for nothing, only woke. How low our society has fallen. Wish I knew the council. I would complain to have it removed. The gardaí taking part in pride with their pride car leaves me with no respect for them. They should be neutral and their car the same, not an advertisement gimmick for the pride cult. Makes me sick to the teeth to see them wasting time at pride, when they should be offering a service they are paid to do. A crisis in speed and drunk driving and death on the roads but these ideologues are pursuing pride. They should not participate in political events and pride is political and very contentious. Supporting the minority makes the majority run for cover.
Its funny all this dei rubbish all being explained away with marxism and all the fancy isms and other rubbish terms but very few know why the satanists want us erased specifically. We are the true people of yahweh and this is a seed war to erase us out of existence while taking as many of us to hell as possible. They know they are going to lose. It is a war against gods people by corrupting us and breeding and murdering us out of existence. That is why all white people are being targeted. If you think that satan and yahweh dont exist, then they already have you. Nearly everything in science has been about indoctrination and disproving the existence of the above. The truth is coming out more and more as people slowly wake up in some form or fashion. One thing I can tell you is that their seed war will fail because the only thing that what they are doing is proving the opposite to be true and waking people up which they did not expect.
Imagine those employees in PTSB listening to poppycock, ‘know your privilege’ and refusing to disagree. That jargon belongs to black American pressure groups and has nothing to do with us, except some woke airheads imported it to keep up their sloganeering.. Since what passes as Irish history in schools nowadays, is not history, it follows that they know nothing about our past. This government has destroyed the curriculum. What about their union? If they can’t go to the unions with a complaint, it means the unions are broken and taken over by transgender. Enoch Burke objects to the presence of Kieran Christie on the appeals board to hear his case, as Burke claims he is biased. Christie, in response, says he accepts the law of the land on transgender. Since transgender ideology opposes Christianity, is woke Christie saying he opposes Christian belief? He has not given clarity. Christie is General Secretary of ASTI. This government hates the Irish people and have given us hell in immigration, LGBT legislation and now their hate bill. The SF leader boasted on RTÉ some years ago that the brother transitioned. She was enthused by it. This is the leader of a political party in opposition, who cheered on mass immigration and every single one of whom voted for the hate legislation. We must vote for the small anti-immigration parties and independent candidates. Ireland is falling. We are losing hard.
People are having to apply for jobs for which they have excellent qualifications and much experience but spell out their DEI views – that have nothing to do with the skills and knowledge required for their work. Just imagine the long term consequences of having a pilot or surgeon or civil engineer chosen on DEI criteria and not on competence?
Thank god I am self employed and no one is pushing this DEI toxic garbage on me.
You can shove your privilege, unconscious bias and critical race theory right up where the sun don’t shine.
Just watching these grifters having a short circuit would make my day.
How many impoverished third world countries have an embassy or consulate in Dublin? If hard working Irish citizens find it difficult to obtain and afford accommodation how on earth can these countries afford it? Neither our politicians nor the DEI advocates have anything to say about this or concern about the situation in the countries they represent. They are all here with their begging bowls but doing little to nothing to fix the mess back home.
a call for honesty my arese…. you are the most dishonest of us all…you have a narrative which is so twisted ….
forgot to report anything recently?Like I don’t know the 7 WCK staff that Israel murdered after delivering aid that was brought by sea?all except the driver were from the international community…you know with their precision weapons and moral strikes….
Maria, RTE cover this extensively as do other media outlets. I think the purpose of GRIPT is to cover stories that are not well documented by other media outlets.
wait what you get and rely on RTE for news,ewww…. yeah well I want to see dear ol Gript here report it,like they have been reporting when it goes against Palestinians ….and are you telling me Gript have never reported on anything MSM have already?….hahahahaha
“pauses” hahahahahaha