A Harris Poll from December 2023 reveals that the workplace politics of code-switching are both complicated and prevalent, particularly among Black and other employees of color. A Harris Poll from ...

I started working at age 15 and since then, I've had two personas: workplace me and the real me. Workplace me is witty yet professional. She's cheerful, high-pitched, and tries to enunciate every word ...

The past few years has seen heightened awareness about diversity in the workplace, the importance of valuing cultural differences, and the idea that every employee should be able to bring their “whole ...

Based on our research and the work of others, we argue that code-switching is one of the key dilemmas that black employees face around race at work. While it is frequently seen as crucial for ...

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James Felton Keith is CEO at Inclusion Score Inc. and Labor Economist at Keith Institute. His latest book is #DataIsLabor. Last year, during a certification class I taught on the International ...

LGBTQ+ professionals say they've had to make a number of adjustments to their personality and how they present when they are in a business setting or their work environment. Data from LinkedIn was ...

Traditionally linguists have bemoaned the fact that the general public knows little of what we do because the subject isn’t taught in schools. But that has changed over the past 20 years or so, as the ...

'Code-switching' was originally coined as a linguistic term for the ways in which bilingual people engage with language. It describes bilingual speakers alternating between literal linguistic codes in ...

I’m a people pleaser, which makes me a dishonest person. This admission is a jarring contradiction for a therapist, yet it is an inescapable truth. I’ve spent years guiding others toward authenticity ...

What exactly is code-switching? Many of us may do it and not even realize it. Others may have never heard this term before, and some others may not acknowledge it as a real thing. Usually groups in ...