As Clear as Black and White: Racially Disparate Concerns Over Career Progression for Remote Workers Across Racial Faultlines

IF 5.3 3区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

Business & Society Pub Date : 2022-10-27 DOI:10.1177/00076503221121823

Daniel G. Bachrach, Pankaj C. Patel, F. Pratto

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Abstract

With increasing complexity in the evolving structure of work in organizations, employees’ preferences for working from home (WFH) relative to working on-site can lead to systematic differences in perceived career implications. An emerging tension associated with WFH versus work-at-work is whether this locational divide is associated with concerns over career progression, especially among racial minorities. Here, we seek to determine whether Black employees, relative to their White counterparts, have more concerns over career progression relating to WFH compared with their on-site colleagues. From a sample of employees in the May 2021 cross-section of the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes (SWAA), we find that relative to higher (lower) income White employees, higher (lower) income Black WFH employees have significantly higher (lower) concerns over career progression than their on-site counterparts. These findings speak both to the nontrivial choices employees may be forced to make as the structure of work continues to evolve and consequences for racial inequality.

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就像黑人和白人一样清晰:跨越种族断层线的远程工作者对职业发展的种族差异担忧

随着组织中工作结构的不断演变，员工在家工作（WFH）相对于在现场工作的偏好可能会导致感知职业影响的系统性差异。与WFH和工作相关的一种新的紧张关系是，这种位置差异是否与对职业发展的担忧有关，尤其是在少数种族中。在这里，我们试图确定黑人员工与白人员工相比，是否比现场同事更关心WFH的职业发展。从2021年5月工作安排和态度调查（SWAA）的员工样本中，我们发现，相对于收入较高（较低）的白人员工，收入较高（较高）的黑人WFH员工对职业发展的担忧明显高于现场员工。这些发现既说明了随着工作结构的不断发展，员工可能被迫做出的不平凡的选择，也说明了种族不平等的后果。

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Business & Society BUSINESS-

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14.80

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11.40%

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