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Workforce Trends: The Importance of Diversity–The Old Minority Will Become the New Majority Diversity
There are several major demographic trends in today’s workplace, such as Baby Boomer retirement, organizations losing female talent and the increasing need for workplace flexibility. Perhaps the most profound trend, however, is the fact that the United States is transitioning from a nation whose majority population is white to a nation in which the majority of the population will soon be people of color. So‐called minorities accounted for 92 percent of the nation’s population growth in the last decade. They are now the majority of residents in four states, 348 counties, the District of Columbia, and a growing number of major metropolitan areas like New York, Las Vegas, and Memphis.