Corporate Leavers - The Cost of Employee Turnover Due to Unfairness
The $64-Billion Question: Why Are Talented People Leaving Corporate America?
DiversityInc article highlighting Corporate Leavers study findings regarding the effects of hidden bias and barriers in the corporate workplace.
Calling it quits
Freada Kapor Klein quoted in Human Resource Executives article about the effect of inappropriate behaviors and workplace unfairness on employees.
About Us
The Corporate Leavers Web Site
The Corporate Leavers website, a project of the Level Playing Field Institute, aims to identify, quantify and remove the hidden biases and barriers in the workplace. The Corporate Leavers website is a product of the Corporate Leavers Survey - a quantitative and qualitative study completed in 2007. The quantitative study, which began with a nationally representative sample of 19,000 participants, identifies the role of unfairness in voluntary employee turnover at the professional or managerial level. The qualitative study is a collection over 1,000 interviews of professionals and managers who experienced workplace unfairness. The Corporate Leavers Survey not only calculates the cost of voluntary employee turnover due solely to unfairness but includes invaluable insight as to what employers can do to keep their employees.The website features four main pages which contain interactive flash environments, research and best practices for employees and employer alike. This website is produced and maintained by the Level Playing Field Institute and its staff. For more information about the Corporate Leavers projects, please contact Martha Kim, Esq., Director of Workplace Programs and Research at martha@lpfi.org.
Level Playing Field Institute
The Level Playing Field Institute, a San Francisco based nonprofit, promotes innovative approaches to fairness in higher education and workplaces by removing barriers to full participation. Through our Summer Math and Science Honors (SMASH) Academy for high school students and our Initiative for Diversity in Education and Leadership (IDEAL) Scholars Program at UC Berkeley, we help to reveal and remove barriers for students of color in education. Through academically rigorous research and the development of tools and resources, we help to identify and eradicate the subtle, day-to-day biases that make workplaces unfair and unwelcoming, especially for people of color, women and GLBT professionals. We believe fairness matters and that no one should have to work twice as hard to get half as far. For more information about the Level Playing Field Institute, please visit www.lpfi.org.
The Artist
Jake Mix is an illustrator and cartoonist living in the Bay Area. At the University of California, Berkeley, Jake became an avid fan of comics both arthouse and pop, and began teaching a student run seminar on comics creation and history. Jake created all of the illustrated characters and icons that you see all over this site. More of his work can be seen at jakemix.com
Interactivity Consultant
Simon Robertson is the founder of SideHatch Studios, a game development studio based in Oakland, California. Working alongside illustrator Jake Mix, Simon programmed the interactive office scenes found on each main page. Simon went on to build his game design skills by earning his Bachelor of Arts Degree with a special focus on Game Design and Interactivity from Cogswell Polytechnical College. Simon teaches Game Theory and Multimedia at LPFI's SMASH Academy, and has also worked for GamePro Magazine and Electronic Arts. For more information or questions, please contact Simon at simon@sidehat.ch.