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We all suffered under COVID-19, but the pandemic has disproportionately impacted certain groups—women and people of color, in particular. With DEI becoming an ever more important element in organizations globally, now is the perfect time to seize opportunities for reflection and restructuring.
In this clip from the 2020 G1 Global Conference, speakers Miki Tsusaka, Robert Alan Feldman, and Masao Torii discuss ways to support cultural diversity in teams.
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Transcript:
Diversity Matters for Working Mothers
Miki Tsusaka:
[New ways of working during the pandemic] have impacted women not only in Japan, but across the world in light of the fact that schools have shut down and whatnot. On average, most families have found that they’re working more hours a week to take care of their children, to take care of the household, to take care of the elderly. It’s about 15, 19 hours a week on top.
60% of Japanese and American now dual-income families are taking care of their kids in a way they’ve never experienced before. The number’s more like 70% in Canada and Australia. And the latest data that I saw from the US is that in fact, though, this is so hard, that 15% of women in the Americas who are in dual-income situations, just feel like they can’t keep this up anymore. That it is very stressful.
We’ve kind of barely survived. Many countries are still in shutdown mode. So in light of that diversity—all of you are in corporate, government, public, and private sectors—I think it’s now a business imperative. I think people get that, but the execution ability of it in terms of what we now do, given all that’s happened, is, I think, an important and very hot topic.
Pandemic Remote Work Opportunities for Diversity in Teams
Masao Torii:
It’s diversity for us. So far, some people might have said this is nice to have, but this is this business-critical. There was a survey done globally talking to half of [our employees], which is 50,000 people. Globally, 74% of the people want to stay online. And only 12% of the people want to come back [to the office] full time. But Japan is even more extreme. So that’s the situation.
Now once we can achieve this, what that means for young people who look for a job is that flexible working is a prerequisite for a good employer. Also, we can tap into—I mean, we can reach an untapped talent pool. People who live far away in Japan, but also overseas, without them having to relocate. So that’s gonna open up a new horizon.
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2 Takeaways from COVID-19 for a More Inclusive Culture
Robert Alan Feldman:
First of all, the role that basic income could play in helping on this. One of the most interesting results from case studies of basic income is that hours of work actually do not decline when you introduce a basic income.
The only subgroups for which there are some declines, and they’re not large, are single mothers with small children and a few people who want to go to college. So what basic income actually does is it rewards particularly women for the work they do that is not compensated in GDP. So that I think is an important element and what we’re experiencing with COVID now, I think, actually has some relevance to this debate on basic income.
The second thing is a very academic approach, but on the role and the benefits of diversity in teams. There’s a scholar at the MIT media lab named Alex Pentland. Very interesting guy. He’s got a book called Social Physics. It’s translated into Japanese, as Sosharu Butsurigaku. And what he says in this book is basically, you can look at a team’s performance without looking at the talent of the people in the team. What you look at is how closely the team has connected to each other.
Do they talk a lot? Do they talk equally to each other? And how many connections do each of the members have to the outside?
This is a point of diversity. Diversity means that you talk to a lot of people and a lot of different people. So, Pentland’s research, I think gives very numerical, big data backing to the assertion that diversity actually improves teamwork.
Speakers:
Robert Alan Feldman, Senior Advisor at Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities, Co., Ltd. and Professor at Tokyo University of Science
Masao Torii, Country President at Novartis Pharma K.K.
Miki Tsusaka, Managing Director & Senior Partner at Boston Consulting Group
Filmed during the G1 Global Conference (October 11, 2020)