Embrace Racial & Cultural Diversity & Learn
To Stop Code-Switching At Work
Don’t let racial inequality and
code-switching tear apart your
team. Instead, learn how you can
help your employees embrace
their unique identities and value
one another’s.
Buki Mosaku of DiverseCity Think Tank, a
diversity business consultant based in
London, has been confirmed as the special
guest in the latest webinar from specialist
inclusion recruitment experts, Harisson
Holgate. The webinar will be held this
Thursday, the 10th of June.
The announcement of this webinar follows
on from a recent investigation conducted
by the Harvard Business Review, in which
they stated that code-switching is one of
the key dilemmas faced by minority
employees when dealing with the issue of
inclusion in the workplace.
As such, Buki Mosaku in collaboration
with Meera Joshi, the head of the
Diversity and Inclusion department at
Harrison Holgate, is proud to present
this webinar, which will be held via
zoom on June 10 at 11.00 am London
time, GMT+1
An area that has vast implications in the
workplace, code-switching refers to the
process by which people of colour and from
minority backgrounds ‘switch’ the way they
talk, behave and dress in order to mirror the
dominant culture and racial makeup of a
workplace.
It can involve a person trying to
change their accent, normal patterns
of speech and word choices, and
while it can be advantageous from a
career perspective it tends to be
extremely damaging on a personal
level.
Buki Mosaku believes that code-
switching is not a choice, but
something that is forced upon
minorities and marginalised groups by
the dominant culture in a workplace
and is often mandated through
behaviours like micro-aggressions.
Ultimately he believes that the need for
code-switching can ultimately lead to a
form of Racial and other forms of
Stockholm Syndrome in which victims of
bias, bond with the perpetrators of this
bias and in the process lose their sense of
identity and self-worth. 
The purpose of this webinar is to teach
business owners, team leaders and
human resources managers, such as
yourself, how you can reverse the trend
towards code-switching by creating a
workplace environment that values and
embraces diversity at all levels.
A spokesperson said of the upcoming
webinar, "Join us for an interactive
discussion during which we will discuss
the development and progression of
underrepresented groups' career paths
and the impact of code-switching on
corporate life."
Go to the website in the
description to find out
more.