5 Lies About Workplace Diversity You Need To Stop Believing

Well, we’re three months into the COVID-19 pandemic, and cases are spiking hard in Florida, where I live. One service I’ve grown to truly appreciate is the contactless pickup at Walmart, where staff will shop your list and load your groceries into your trunk without charging the additional membership and service fees that Instacart does. What shortcuts and services are you relying on these days? Let me know at janie.campbell@huffpost.com, and check out the latest practical advice from HuffPost below.

Janie

Take Back Your Life

Though Congress has talked about a second round of stimulus payments, millions of Americans are frustrated that they have yet to receive the first. Distributing those pandemic relief checks ― or Economic Impact Payments, as they’re officially known ― has not been a speedy process. In fact, an estimated 30 to 35 million checks still haven’t been sent. If you’re wondering where your money is and when you’ll get it, here’s what you need to know.

Still Waiting On Your Stimulus Check?

Deal With It

In recent days, employees in media and retail have called out the racism happening within their own companies even as these companies champion Black Lives Matter on social media. Part of learning how to talk about race in the workplace and fixing these issues is realizing which practices you may have come to accept as normal. In other words, it’s time to interrogate how your own thinking could contribute toward making Black and other underrepresented colleagues feel unwelcome. You may have internalized common lies about workplace diversity regarding race that you need to know are not true.

5 Lies About Workplace Diversity You Need To Stop Believing

Pro Tip:

Apple released details of its upcoming iOS software update, and soon owners of compatible cars will be able to unlock them with their iPhones and even share an electronic key with friends or family. But for those of us who’ll be slower to access that particular technology, there’s still a lot of cool iPhone updates to learn about before the rollout, like picture-in-picture capabilities, changes to text messaging and more. Get the details.