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Fewer employees 'out' at work amid rise in anti-LGBTQ sentiment
The proportion of LGBTQ+ employees who are 'out' at work has been steadily decreasing, alongside declining support for DE&I initiatives in the workplace, new data shows.
Personal support for the work an organisation does for LGBTQ+ employee inclusion has dropped to 82.7%, from 84.4% in 2023 and 86.7% in 2022, according to analysis of Pride in Diversity's 2024 Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI).
And fewer people now believe that if a member of their team were to begin openly identifying as a gender which is different from their sex recorded at birth, they would be fully supported by the team (2024: 85.4%, 2023: 86.8%, 2022: 89.7%).
Further, between 2020 and 2024 there has been a 12.9% reduction in those 'out', and a 27.4% increase in those 'not out'...
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