UM, you probably recognize that there is a quickly moving bt O resurgency like back to office. Companies are going back to office AP think Apple announced it yesterday or today, depending on when you're listening to this. Apple recently announced they want the people back in the office. UM. Is that dangerous to this conversation of UM, diversity in the in the workplace. I think it's really interesting. Um. There's a couple of different points to it. One, I think
the cats out of the bag. Frankly, in terms of people saying, hunt, do I really have two hours of my day or three hours of my day to be commuting In an era where you have housing prices rising and folks can't afford to live near yor city center, that's even more of an issue. And it affects black books in particular. If I'm in Mississippi or if I'm in Georgia, if I'm in Atlanta, not only do I have amain in Atlanta based companies, but I'm attracting attention
from all over the country. Why would I want to leave Atlanta? Um? If you enjoy that community. I think the other side of it gets interesting, is UM. Oh yeah, And what I think the other side of it is, um how do companies that used to be in office and who are going hybrid or fully remote, how are they managing the mentorship and sponsorship of new employees, particularly
black and brown employees. Here's how it works. If it's always if it had been in an office and it's a little bit of dry by and so forth, meetings or lunches or whatever. Hey, I'd love to get like a coffee with you and you get some informal mentoring and so forth, that's awesome. If you move to hybrid,
how does that happen? It doesn't just automatically. Has to have an intention, and so a company would have to say, we understand that, and we're committed to either having identifying our star folks or emerging talent and getting them back in that office for a week a quarter so that we can kind of get that that trust building that happens person to person or place of pace to face um,
or we do some other rotation system. If there was a remote person who isn't getting that kind of manatorship and the culture supports it face to face, they are at a deficit. So one would have to be thoughtful about setting that up. It's black tech. Green Money shared this podcast with the people you're closest to.