Inclusion Fatigue: The Hidden Labor Nobody Bills For
Inclusion work is real work. But it rarely shows up on a timesheet. It's the extra hour you spend rewriting an email so it doesn't sound condescending. The meeting you schedule to prep a colleague who keeps getting talked over. The careful phrasing of feedback that actually lands. This labor is everywhere, and yet it's invisible—unbilled, unacknowledged, unpaid. So who ends up carrying it? Usually the people who already have the least slack. Women, people of color, and other underrepresented folks, often doing this work on top of their day jobs. And it's burning them out. But here's the thing: you can change that. Start by seeing the load. Then you can share it.