Facebook Diversity Report and Google showed insignificant changes compared to last year
Facebook and other technology companies are not changing fast enough percentage of its diversity of scenery in headcount, which It has become a concern for civil rights activists.
Black Staff, for example, represent 2% of Facebook’s workforce by 31 May this year, according to a diversity report revealed by the company itself in this Thursday, June 25th. A context that has not changed compared to last year, which also showed 2%.
Hispanic descent Professionals correspond previously 4% of employees, while people from two or more ethnic groups correspond to 3%.
A small change, however positive, concerns the percentage of women. According to the same report, in June 2014, Facebook had 31% of women on the board. It currently has 32%.
The percentage of Asians of staff increased from 34% to 36%.
Another technology giant, Google, said this month that are increasing their hiring of minority groups.
Although 21% of their hires in technology last year were women, their Labour market share rose only 1%.
Move percentage points requires extensive efforts of a large company with 55,000 employees, said the legal counsel David Drummond Google at a meeting of shareholders of the company, accounting the comments of the Reverend Jesse Jackson that companies did not move much on the topic.
The leader in civil rights has been required considerable success that technology companies publish diversity reports. More than 25 companies released their data. Jackson now wants the companies to submit tangible goals and report back on their success in meeting them. He argues that women and minorities still represent underserved markets, underutilized talents and untapped capital for companies.
On Thursday, Jackson said in a statement that the numbers 2015 Google, eBay and Facebook clearly demonstrate it is necessary to articulate change, since they are virtually identical to 2014.
“technology companies must do more to aspire the best, as set goals to move the rule in diversity and inclusion,” he added.
On Thursday, the Global Head of Diversity of Facebook, Maxine Williams wrote in a post that the company had adopted an approach similar to the Rooney rule in the National Football League (NFL) in the United States, which encourages “recruiters to look more and more intelligently to talent diversity and ensures that hiring managers are exposed to a variety of different candidates during the interview process.”
The training program University Facebook invites college freshmen, usually under-represented groups, with exceptional talent and interest in computer science, to work in teams with Facebook mentors during the summer so that they can learn the skills the company is looking for, Williams he said.
During a recent meeting with shareholders of Facebook, Jackson asked the company firmasse partnership with your organization RainbowPush civil rights to establish technology labs thousand churches across the country, as do a large investment in the Oakland Unified School District, a school district public education. In order to build “a pipeline not only from India but from Bay Area surrounding communities to Facebook and technology industry,” according to a transcript of the speech provided by RainbowPush.
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