Management & Work
Men’s Groups (Not ‘Boys Clubs’) Quietly Emerge in Big Business
A format originally designed for women and racial minorities is gaining traction with a different cohort.
Illustration: Zach Hackman for Bloomberg Businessweek
Every other Thursday after lunch, more than 50 employees at UK broadcaster Channel 4 join a video call to discuss a topic rarely broached in the modern workplace: the everyday challenges of being a man.
Colleagues unload about mental stress, masculine identities and the challenges of raising sons against the backdrop of the manosphere. “The biggest surprise I had was how desperate men were to talk and learn,” says Tafadzwa Muchenje, a senior marketing executive at Channel 4 who co-runs the group. “There was so much desire and appetite.”