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When workplace social events require emotional labor

I got invited to the company retreat but I'm the only Black person and I keep imagining all the ways I'll have to perform 'safe' versions of myself for three straight days.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Professional belonging often demands a performance that exhausts the very people seeking inclusion.

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