Why it makes good business sense to attract more employees from working-class backgrounds

By Marianna Fotaki, Network Fellow, Edmond J Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University and Professor of Business Ethics, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

The business world has made some progress in tackling entrenched barriers of gender, ethnicity and sexuality in the work place. But inequalities related to income and education continue to attract much less attention.

Yet the social and economic position of a person’s family remains a key factor when it comes to career opportunities.…

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