Corporate diversity training is usually a box-ticking exercise that does nothing to change workplace culture—I've sat through enough of those mandatory sessions to see the eye rolls and the same jokes afterwards. But here's the thing: when a training actually forces people to confront uncomfortable real-world scenarios, like how a hiring manager might unconsciously favor candidates from their own alma mater or social circle, it can shift behavior and not just language. The problem is most companies avoid that discomfort to keep everyone happy, so they end up with a policy that looks good on paper but leaves the real biases untouched. So my question is: should we keep mandatory diversity training even if most of it fails, because a little awareness is better than none, or does it just give companies an illusion of progress that lets them ignore deeper structural fixes?