Report: Race at Work - The Scorecard Report 2018

This Business in the Community report highlights that British Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) people in the workplace are ambitious but there is a lack of opportunity. It finds that this is a waste of talent, energy, enthusiasm and expertise.

Key findings

• One in four BAME employees reported that they had witnessed or experienced racist harassment or bullying from managers in the last two years.
• Since 2015 there has been an increase in the proportion of people from a BAME background who report they have witnessed or experienced racist harassment or bullying from customers or service users (up to 19 per cent from 16 per cent).
• 70 per cent of BAME employees say that career progression is important to them, compared to only 42 per cent of white British employees. However, over half of BAME employees believe that they will have to leave their current organisation to progress in their career, compared with 38 per cent of white British employees who believe this.
• The proportion of managers who report that they have a performance objective to promote equality at work has fallen from 41 per cent in 2015 to 32 per cent in 2018.
• There has been little development in the number of people comfortable talking about race, with 38 per cent answering that they are compared with 37 per cent in 2015.

The scorecard report sets out the performance of UK Plc using a YouGov sample survey of 6,506 respondents. In addition to the YouGov data, the Race at Work 2018 survey was completed by a further 17,804 people who participated through an open public link taking the total respondents 24,310.