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Ten years ago, employee networks or affinity groups, as they were mostly known, were loosely formed socially based organizations
in which people from similar underrepresented
demographic groups got together. They used
these groups to network for job opportunities
and sometimes to gripe about their employers.
Today, these groups usually have the word
“resource” in their names because they are significant resources to their organizations’ business
goals, substantially contributing to recruitment,
engagement, retention, talent development,
BY BARBARA FRANKEL
