{"id":1699,"date":"2024-12-24T04:28:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T04:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trionandcostaging.microsite.sg\/index.php\/2024\/12\/24\/trion-in-the-news-uol-group-backlash\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T02:31:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T02:31:02","slug":"trion-in-the-news-uol-group-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trionandcostaging.microsite.sg\/index.php\/2024\/12\/24\/trion-in-the-news-uol-group-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"TriOn in the News &#8211; UOL Group Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/img1.wsimg.com\/isteam\/ip\/77882c5d-00bb-4034-9cc4-ac411b53eec9\/1732864135312.jpeg\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 TriOn in the News \u2022<\/p>\n<p>The recent black face incident at UOL Group\u2019s event sparked furious debate and backlash. While this was the action of certain individuals, the company was dragged into the situation. This opens a can of worms about who is responsible, what is the remedy and how can communications manage such issues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/charusri\/\">Charu Srivastava<\/a>, our Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, weighed in on the situation and stressed the need for diversity, equity and inclusion education and training in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is understandable that different individuals might have different levels of understanding and awareness of offensive behaviour whether it is racism or otherwise. However, since employees are ambassadors of the company, the company needs to ensure that all their employees are aligned on the values and their expectation of behaviours in professional settings,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/lnkd.in\/g_3vS3sX\">https:\/\/lnkd.in\/g_3vS3sX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/abidahzaidshirbeeni\/\">A&#8217;bidah Zaid Shirbeeni<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/marketinginteractive\/\">MARKETING-INTERACTIVE<\/a> for the opportunity to provide our insights!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=trionandco&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7268161283525361665\">hashtag#TriOnandCo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=trioninthenews&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7268161283525361665\">hashtag#TriOnInTheNews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=dei&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7268161283525361665\">hashtag#DEI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=prdamage&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7268161283525361665\">hashtag#PRDamage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 TriOn in the News \u2022<\/p>\n<p>The recent black face incident at UOL Group\u2019s event sparked furious debate and backlash. While this was the action of certain individuals, the company was dragged into the situation. This opens a c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trion-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trionandcostaging.microsite.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trionandcostaging.microsite.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trionandcostaging.microsite.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trionandcostaging.microsite.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trionandcostaging.microsite.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trionandcostaging.microsite.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trionandcostaging.microsite.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trionandcostaging.microsite.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trionandcostaging.microsite.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trionandcostaging.microsite.sg\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}