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Even if you get hired, you still have to show up for work and can be fired later due to the same bias.

If both the application and the work is completely remote and anonymous it might be possible to avoid most bias, but that's only feasible in IT and a couple other sectors and even there it's not common.

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No, firing people is more expensive than rejecting them. And a lot of bias happening in the recruiting process are unconscious. So anonymous recruiting would prevent a lot those unconscious bias in the hiring process.

In most jurisdictions it's hard to hard someone. In all jurisdictions it's expensive.

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