This new system comes on the heels of many companies dumping their diversity, equity, and inclusion scores, among them the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index. Carlson began surveying the top 3,000 largest companies earlier this year, according to her nonprofit group, Lift Our Voices. The LOV Where You Work index will go public in 2025.
“Our team of academic researchers will survey Russell 3000 companies and model publicly available financial data to design a corporate grading system and determine whether the presence or absence of silencing mechanisms drives performance outcomes,” the organization explained on its website.
These mechanisms include nondisclosure agreements and forced arbitration via closed-door courts outside the public system. Often these are the strategies enacted by companies when incidents of sexual harassment arise. Carlson herself…
