Wall Street banks and big City law firms among employers addressing potential discrimination
If the polls are to be believed, the UK parliament will look quite different after the July 4th general election. But there might also be a big change in the way it sounds.San Leon’s curious German bond security
But I was given all the figures above by a reliable source: a professor of linguistics I came across recently named Devyani Sharma. More saliently, the number of top employers asking for accent bias training is increasing to the point that Sharma, who does corporate workshops based on the project’s research, is struggling to keep up with demand.
The training tools Sharma and her colleagues have developed are not complicated. They show how we naturally make snap judgments about one another, and our respective social classes, as soon we hear someone speak.That’s not unique to the UK. But as the tools reveal, the British public’s view of a good and bad accent has not changed much in the past 50 years.
Pointing out these findings appears to be the simplest way of countering biases that, as Sharma tells companies, can lead to smart people leaving or not being promoted to suitable jobs. Employers can of course only do so much. The data Sharma sent me about MPs’ accents was commissioned for a 2022 BBC programme, How to Crack the Class Ceiling, hosted by non-RP-speaking presenter Amol Rajan.
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