In recent years, many corporations and organizations have made significant investments to foster and develop diversity programs for their employees. Most have discovered that workers who feel included, valued and nurtured usually thrive as loyal, committed and productive team members. Few organizations, though, have made the ultimate leap to recognize faith as a dimension of diversity.
However, as employee fatigue from a 24/7 connection to work through technology, and as younger, and older, employees assess the meaning of life and career, some businesses have started to doubt their doubts when it comes to faith in the workplace. For many years, an employee talking about their faith was not just frowned upon but usually strongly cautioned against. Long shunned in the high-paced, high-tech culture of today's organizations, faith may have re-established a foothold as companies see it as an uplifting and even uniting force for employees.
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