A woke minded workforce collapses on itself unless it’s a public sector employer which doesn’t really make or produce goods. In manufacturing work has to be done in an industrial process which places the importance of productivity over social recognition of the workers. Your recognition is the work you do at the speed, efficiency, quality, and safe manner in which you produce it within a process team that has only those goals. Your feelings about personal matters are irrelevant unless you’re on a lunch break, and even that is bad manners.
Without starting a massive side-flame war, I think many Trump supporters (but likely a minority, no pun intended) considered Floyd to hardly be a saint, and certainly hopped up...but that his death was caused by police incompetence. Cops deal with terrible people all the time but they don't usually kill the perp. Parenthetically, the same mindset that made Chauvin the cop he was, is on display in Ottawa.
I know many people in business - and I'm not talking about Bidet supporters - were put off by Chauvin's incompetence and Floyd's death. That episode DID spawn healthy discussions about race. BUT... those same people were absolutely repulsed by the riots and unbridled lawlessness. And, while they didn't get much airtime there WERE blacks who weren't all-in on calling that criminal activity "mostly peaceful protests."
Enter private enterprise. The business of America is business. But if customers and employees are interested in management's thoughts on what's happening in the nation (I mean, it wasn't an isolated incident), staying silent wasn't exactly an option. This is where was wokeism got a foothold, but I would submit to you, that it took hold chiefly where senior management was already down with the cause, man. Those firms got all the press coverage, because the MSM wanted you to think, this wokeism was sweeping the nation.
It wasn't. The remaining companies likely had some Zoom calls on the topic, a few "share your feeling" meetings, intranet articles about getting involved etc etc blah blah blah. Most employees I know, to a large extent, simply got back to work because a) it's an uncomfortable subject, b) Mama taught most of us to never talk about religion or politics, and c) the business at hand required action. To be sure, some people got hired to address "inequalities" and hiring practices were adjusted, but most of this didn't change the profit motive NOR people's basic good nature.
It is really helpful to separate wokeism from the Golden Rule. Because of the pandemic, we got to know a LOT about our colleagues concerns and fears and fearlessness. Some people were petrified and remain masked and vaxxed up. Others are done with all this. But there IS an understanding that if Mary in accounting is masked up because she's nervous or has an elderly parent at home, we aren't going to treat her differently. Further, we don't see every black employee as a quota filler, because we probably got to know them a little better and - surprise - they're very good at what they do. AT THE SAME TIME, saying that informing your boss when you're going to be taking vacation is institutional racism, is now treated as utter stupidity UNLESS YOUR EMPLOYER IS NUTS (in which case, call a headhunter asap).
Dead branches eventually fall and become dust. The same is true of companies rotting from the inside out. Give it time.