Experts share the 5 steps companies can take to support the mental health and wellbeing of employees of color

• Employee wellbeing has risen up the agenda for business leaders in recent years.
• Surveys show employees of color routinely encounter racism and are more likely to feel underpaid.
• Experts share the steps businesses can take to help ensure non-white staff aren’t discriminated against.

Employee wellbeing has risen on the agenda for business leaders in recent years. But research shows a racial disparity in employees’ experience of the workplace.

A quarter of people of color reported suffering or witnessing bullying or harassment by their managers at the work in the previous two years, according to a 2018 survey by UK business network Business in the Community.

The following year’s survey found that 30% of employees of color reported being subjected to bad behavior in the last year due to their ethnicity. Last August, 56% of Black staff who took part in the next survey said they were underpaid, compared with 41% of white employees.