In a recent article, the New Yorker defined 2017 as a year of “diversity fatigue.” Writer Hua Hsu notes how it’s becoming “increasingly mainstream” to question the legitimacy of the term “diversity.”

In an effort to showcase their “wokeness,” companies have bought into the “brochures and optics” version of diversity, but often give intellectual diversity the cold shoulder. In practice, diversity has become more of a burdensome “check-the-box” than a company value to most businesses.