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Re:What diversity and inclusion means at Microsoft by bitti on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @02:04AM (#33173439)
I share your concern... Started as a manager in a successful scale-up and as usual our engineering staff is white & male (we are hiring from European Timezone). In order to secure the funding round, the higher management has introduced a diversity targets, which is driven aggressively by HR. Funny enough lots of the European laws forbid asking if the candidate is a member of an "unrepresented" group, so I guess we'll be just eyeballing it??? This won't end good, but one must make a living.
Re:What diversity and inclusion means at Microsoft by yourusername on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @03:43AM (#33174035)
How can you even report to your investors on this diversity? I was under the impression that registering things like sexual/gender/religious identity and "race" are not allowed under GDPR unless you have very good reasons (i would assume securing investment is not one of them).
Re:What diversity and inclusion means at Microsoft by rizzaxc on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @04:08AM (#33174203)
hold up you need DIE to convince investors? how does this make sense; wouldn't they be more concerned about your company's cold, hard numbers?
Re:What diversity and inclusion means at Microsoft by raxxorraxor on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @09:53AM (#33176993)
Depends on the investors but allegedly it is widely spread. And if you want lucrative government contracts, you have to implement it. I think it is overwhelmingly driven by government. Didn't find enough racism so they needed to create it.
Re:What diversity and inclusion means at Microsoft by knewter on Thursday October 13, 2022 @09:20AM (#33190589)
Are you actually unaware of the Environmental and Social Governance (ESG) programs?

Many institutional investors - the largest ones - have announced their funding is dependent on ESG scores. I'm fascinated that people on this site can be unaware of this.