Google’s chief diversity officer Melonie D. Parker joins journalist and host of the “TED Tech” podcast Sherrell Dorsey for a conversation on fostering belonging and opportunity in the workplace. Learn more about how companies can sustainably promote diversity, equity and inclusion — and why you should aim to “add in,” not “fit in.”
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@russell-hj6kp
January 25, 2024 at 10:53 am
Floyd killed himself by hiding fentanyl in his mouth, after police were called on him for using countfiet 20$ bill, the cop is innocent, get it correct.
@TheAmericanAmerican
January 25, 2024 at 11:26 am
“Baaa! Baaaaaaaa! BAAAAAAAAA!!!!” is all I’m hearing here 🤣
@heavi-armed-infadel
January 25, 2024 at 10:54 am
“Next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask them how many Republicans are in their sociology department”
~Thomas Sowell
@TheAmericanAmerican
January 25, 2024 at 11:10 am
Haha! The answer is and always will be zero!
Why?
Because as soon as you start learning and grasping the idea of Sociology, you become incapable of regressing to a conservative/republican mindset.
How do I know? Because I voted for John McCain my freshman year of college and then for Obama my senior year whilst graduating with my bachelor in Sociology/Criminal Justice 🤣
@HippoSquatch
January 25, 2024 at 12:45 pm
@@TheAmericanAmerican Well, Indoctrination and Brainwashing are indeed powerful tools.
@swrpggm
January 25, 2024 at 12:48 pm
You have to find a Republican who is even moderately interested in the subject. That’s what, one and a million?
@companyconfidential6624
January 25, 2024 at 11:02 am
You can’t make any changes unless you last on staff.
@meanderinoranges
January 25, 2024 at 11:03 am
Affirmative Action was the last remaining institutional racism in this country. Ending it was the most significant advancement for race relations in the last 50 years. DEI is a racist movement that also needs to go the way of the dodo if we want to further progress.
@TheAmericanAmerican
January 25, 2024 at 11:12 am
Want to feel like you “belong” at work and not like another cog in the machine? Easy. Join a union or better yet, join/start a worker-owned cooperative! ✊️
@MMuraseofSandvich
January 25, 2024 at 11:30 am
Yes, I’m sure that CEOs will learn this after telling their admin assistants to watch it…
@JakeRoselli
January 25, 2024 at 11:40 am
Yawn 🥱
@swrpggm
January 25, 2024 at 12:44 pm
Most young workers don’t want to belong. They want to work at home, alone. Every job to them is a steppingstone to another job with higher pay.
@erikpoephoofd
January 26, 2024 at 5:03 am
What? This is not my experience at all. How did you reach the conclusions that most young workers want to work alone?
@farticusmaximusOG
January 25, 2024 at 12:46 pm
For rich people, by rich people 😂
@tiojoseph
January 25, 2024 at 1:12 pm
Least obvious paid endorsement 🤣 this video coincidentally coming after news about office spaces being empty because workers prefer working from home and spending more time with their families. And rightfully so the only people being mad at this are real estate investors. Didn’t knew tedx could be this much of a sellout.
@Jdigger4130
January 25, 2024 at 1:19 pm
“Our goal was to ensure that others do what we demand” is how her pitch comes off to me… you cannot do this work… in America cuz regular folk see through yer grift and overt racism to combat racism
@HelloDhaka104
January 25, 2024 at 3:08 pm
Thank you (Number One)
@GooglyDelivery
January 25, 2024 at 6:35 pm
Bustard World, Bustard Corporate Thief …
They used me 5 years like a labour , not a single penny incone online my whole life, they thought that im fool … ✍️
@HlwPoisonMosquito
January 25, 2024 at 6:35 pm
Bustard World, Bustard Corporate Thief …
They used me 5 years like a labour , not a single penny incone online my whole life, they thought that im fool … ✍️
@abstrkt3950
January 25, 2024 at 6:45 pm
I like using bigwords to make myself sound photosynthesis 😂
@abstrkt3950
January 25, 2024 at 6:48 pm
But on a serious note, the introduction was brilliant. I just wish this talk was more than about AMERICA. Ethnocentric biases are present here, given that there are two Americans talking about things like public health but only in America?
@abstrkt3950
January 25, 2024 at 6:59 pm
Just to clarify I totally gave up watching this video at the 7 minute mark so let me know if I missed anything
@sylicaa4348
January 25, 2024 at 7:05 pm
Yikes, it’s a very unfortunate time to be talking about Equity and Inclusion for Google right now after they’ve just been brought into the spotlight for contracting with the genocidal Isreali govt to profile Paleatinians..
@francesbernard2445
January 25, 2024 at 7:21 pm
I agree that all of us women who get labelled as being geriatric a lot sooner than men get labelled that way while all who are geriatric are often get told their opinions and perceptions should mean far less to consider at the time regardless of what weight any opinion on some concerns needs to be must be questioned often instead of only leaving up all of that questioning to only MEagan and HArry from British royalty. Meagan and Harry only so people like only Pierrrs Morgan [Who may or may not be envious towards the royal family in general] one by one have a field day while gettinh to be endlessly questioning both of them about their lifestyle until kingdom come while we are being told only that is okay because he offers the most popular opinions at the time in Britain about that too. Ideal Versus Real Culture” (Bereska, Symbaluk, “Top hat sociology in action” [Italiiscized here] .A paragraph heading in Chapter 3 on page 60, 2022) could be a statement which could be supported with evidence showing that a culture of belonging does not involve only through the offerings of only sympathy along with only tokens of comfort being given there while continuing to be regarded there as being less important in the world.
@importantname
January 25, 2024 at 8:29 pm
we want you to feel like you belong so you work harder, longer and for less than you are worth. And in the fine print – if you dont work harder, longer and for less than you are worth – you dont belong here???????
@runtrat9
January 26, 2024 at 12:31 am
TED Talk is trash now.
@theD.1
January 26, 2024 at 6:51 am
Biden campaign agenda
@khairulkabir3986
January 26, 2024 at 9:28 am
Adding subtitle is good one. Thanks tor that.
@lizoftedal2621
January 26, 2024 at 4:14 pm
Dont look up,look down
@lizoftedal2621
January 26, 2024 at 4:14 pm
Be vi guilan tee
@Giovanisabelc.izahar
January 26, 2024 at 10:44 pm
Gen Z lacking. Get in there
@celestialcircledance
January 30, 2024 at 8:10 am
It was good to see gen x get an honorable mention for a change. and I hope that age discrimination in the workplace will be addressed along with gender and race . The fact that adults have to be worried for their jobs after age 40 is totally unacceptable to me!
@user-le7op3lm8l
January 31, 2024 at 5:13 am
I’ve seen a lot of big words here, but little pragmatic discourse on the actions taken and their results