Re:Facebook’s diversity efforts show little progress after f...
by pdpi on Thursday July 12, 2018 @12:41PM
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Because they care?
I know it's a shocking concept, but people actually care. "Big corporations" aren't some amorphous number crunching machine. They're staffed by people, and those people have concerns, and priorities, and principles. When you specifically hire for people who share those principles, and announce them loudly as part of your culture, people actually can, and do, get upset, and demand change when you don't act accordingly — and change can and does happen.
Re:Facebook’s diversity efforts show little progress after f...
by craftyguy on Thursday July 12, 2018 @12:33PM
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> Can someone tell me why these tech companies even publish these numbers?
PR.
Re:Facebook’s diversity efforts show little progress after f...
by 5874-4b22-a4e0 on Thursday July 12, 2018 @12:34PM
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When they get sued, they bring these up and say, we tried.
It seems like they always end up with egg on their face. And they have no obligation to be transparent as private (or public) entities.
But now they all have to have chief diversity officers and diversity councils and PR/recruiting teams for diversity - all of which cost money and hasn't seemed to move the needle very much.
And which as another poster pointed out, doesn't fundamentally change the underlying issue about who applies to these jobs, who goes to school for computer science, etc.