Inequity Flourishes In the Widening Digital Divide

The global pandemic has driven pervasive change in the workplace at unprecedented speed. It has created a host of new problems and exacerbated longstanding ones. Businesses have been quick to address the most pressing challenges. The result is a workforce transformed, with some 40 percent of employees now working remotely as of June. But chronic workplace inequities have been left to fester: triaged, assessed as non-life-threatening, and, therefore, not worthy of emergency treatment. Left untreated, injustice in the workplace gives rise to other heritable ailments such as poverty, powerlessness, government-dependence, poor health and emotional malaise. The divide that now separates remote and non-remote workers has emerged as one more barrier to equity in the workplace…