54 Percent Of Americans Would Consider Leaving A Company If It Didn’t Speak Out Against Racial Injustice

Fifty-four percent of Americans say they would consider leaving a company if it didn’t speak out against racial injustice.

As the world remembers the life of police-slain George Floyd, a new report from diversity, equity and inclusion strategy firm Paradigm found Americans are more aware of racial injustice in the United States. They also want to know that the companies they work for are taking action against it.

CNBC reports The Harris Poll surveyed more than 2,000 adults. The results showed 69 percent of Americans believe racial injustice is an issue in the States and 60 percent now believe racial injustice is a bigger problem than they realized.

The poll doesn’t show the racial breakdown of those who were surveyed.

Sixty-eight percent said they believe racial injustice should be discussed at work, and 54 percent said they would consider leaving an organization or job if it did not speak out directly against racial injustice.

“What we’ve seen is that following the murder of George Floyd and the protests and all of the kind of conversations that were happening, there was overall an increased level of consciousness of the ways in which racial injustice really permeate our society and our world,” social psychologist and Paradigm’s Managing Director Evelyn Carter tells CNBC Make It. “That was known by folks, mostly folks of color and also some white folks, for a long time but talked about behind closed doors or whispered about.”