Why progress on diversity has stalled

For more than a decade, organisations have invested heavily in diversity initiatives. Bias training, employee resource groups and inclusive branding campaigns are now common across industries. Yet hiring outcomes have changed far more slowly than expected.

This report explores a simple but often overlooked issue: most diversity efforts sit around the hiring process, not inside it.

Hiring decisions still rely heavily on CVs, unstructured interviews and subjective judgment. Systems that simply weren’t designed to produce consistent or equitable outcomes. Without visibility across attraction, assessment and hiring decisions, bias remains difficult to detect and even harder to address.