It's a hammer without a nail. Is there some explosion of employees engaging in racist behavior which suddenly needs to be curtailed? If a specific employee is having performance-related character flaws show up on their annual appraisals, then it should be addressed through the appropriate performance review channels, and for the specific individual involved.
It's pure psychological projection based on a five year old's conception of the world; an "interactive training" we had to take at work finger-waggled me for assuming a picture of a white guy was a CEO-- except that I'd actually clicked on the black woman. Whoops!
It's a tautology. Your denial is proof that it exists. It's "unconscious", see?
It assumes differences in outcome are due to "bias", even when there are more rational explanations. It's like the person who thinks there's a ghost every time the curtain flutters. 80% of NBA players are black not because of anti-white racism, but because black men often have physiological advantages which suit the particular sport, because black youths tend to practice the sport more, and so forth.
It focuses too much on Cultural Marxist bogeymen; a brow-beaten NBA player singled himself out as the "one with the problem", despite being literally the only white guy on his entire team. What about the "bias" of his black teammates? Meanwhile, the marketing department in my workplace is predominantly female; why are they not explicitly hiring and promoting men? Why are men in commercials presented as bumbling and effeminate, while women are shown as masculine and strong and in control? And so forth.
The "IAT" research upon which this is based is bunk; even the people who made it had to admit that it showed very little connection to anyone's actual behavior. Not only that, but the test results are not even remotely repeatable, even when issued to the same person moments apart. There is no way it could be used as any kind of clinical diagnosis of any kind; results could probably be randomly generated, and come out similarly.
It conflates "facts" with "hate". Completely variable-adjusted, repeatedly and scientifically sound studies show material IQ differences between racial groups. 37% of violent crimes in America are committed by a racial group which is just 13% of the population. 92.1% of nurses are women. Women make more money than men when income data is normalized by variable. I routinely see the "unconscious bias" crowd flip their wigs at numbers. Can't we have science and treat eveyone as an individual?
It's brainless and bandwagoney. Companies are doing this because other companies are doing it. Ironically, the "training" is telling people to understand the deep reasons for their actions.
It's creepy. Just in the 20th century, Communist regimes from Vietnam to North Korea to Romania and elsewhere used "re-education" camps to "correct" wrongthink. The Chinese government runs them today, and reports say there may be as many as 1.5 million Uighurs in them. It seems really tone deaf for a private corporation to start down the road of pre-emptively thought probing its employees.
It's ultimately insulting and demeaning. If I were to round up every employee at my company and tell them they are all "unconscious pedophiles", and asked them to click on pictures of small children based on whom they were most attracted, how do you think people would react?