A Kantar study for Global Workplace Providers Instant Offices shows more than a quarter of women (27 percent) across the world still report being made to feel like they do not belong in their workplace.
Employees who are part of an ethnic minority often face daily struggles, with 13 percent feeling excluded at work and 11 percent saying they are treated differently in the workplace due to their ethnicity.
In the UK, tech employees are five times more stressed than the average UK worker, with 14 percent per cent of people saying their ethnicity has negatively impacted their career progression. In addition, 31 percent of Asian and South East Asian and 40 percent of Afro-Caribbean employees in tech have experienced discrimination because of their ethnicity. Within the UK tech industry, 78 percent of people are under 45 years old, 69 per cent are white and 88 percent are heterosexual.
