The Invisible Workplace Divides Sabotaging Employee Engagement

Early in my corporate career, I saw it up close: lower-level employees doing essential work were treated as dispensable while those with polished titles and proximity to the right people were handed stretch roles and promotions. Years later, once I was in the room where decisions were made, I realized these weren’t one-off favoritisms. They were patterns. And most leaders couldn’t even see them.