It’s that time of year again and this year’s graduate trainees are turning up to their new offices eager to join the corporate world. (It only feels like a couple of weeks since I last wrote about this. Where’s the year gone?)
A friend described the new recruits at a City firm’s graduate induction programme.
There was a good sprinkling of black, Indian and Chinese faces but everyone was thin, good looking and spoke either with a Home Counties accent or, in a few cases, a refined regional one. There were no fat people, no strong accents, no-one with spots, no-one who looked a bit funny and no chavs.
“Does your firm have a diversity policy?” I asked.
It depends what you mean by diversity.
It does indeed depend. diversity of opinion?
Diversity, like beauty,is in the eye of the beholder. Or, indeed, according to whatever flavour of political correctness is in this month.