Your Boss Wants to Know If You're Gay
- `Collecting the data is not weird now. There's less stigma.'
- Corporate America is in a new era of ask, please tell
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Are you gay? The question isn’t taboo in the workplace anymore, for better or worse.
JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s human resources department is asking employees for the first time this year if they’d like to disclose their sexual orientation or gender identity. Companies including Facebook Inc., Deutsche Bank AG, IBM Corp. and AT&T Inc. also collect the data. By one measure, nearly half of the largest U.S. businesses -- under pressure to be inclusive as they compete for talent -- seek to gather information on who on the payroll is homosexual, bisexual or transgender so better benefit plans can be designed and managers can consider diversity enhancing promotions.