“There’s a lot more work to be done”: Apple releases diversity report

In a report published with a name of “mid-year diversity report” by the chip designer company, clearly depicts that company is doing no discrimination while hiring employees and it not only hiring more women and minorities, but in its overall representation is improving with people from different race and from minorities are there. Changes reflected about 7 months later were not significant with a.01% increase for Blacks and percentages that stayed the same for Hispanic and Native American groups.

Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a statement Thursday that he’s proud of his company’s efforts, but acknowledged, “We know there is a lot more work to be done”.

“Others will recognise how much farther we have to go”. He called it “inexcusable, unacceptable and inconsistent with the values espoused by tech companies”. The company says it is focusing on how to address the retention issue with unconscious bias training and taking a hard look at its own culture, including benefits and lack of internal networks for diverse employees.

As well as focusing internally on changing the ratio on diversity, Intel has reached US$117m in spending with global diverse suppliers and is on track to achieve its 2015 goal of US$250 million in spending. “And more important than these statistics, we see tens of thousands of Apple employees all over the world, speaking dozens of languages, working together”.

However, non-technical roles have a ideal 50 percent split between males and females, although 70 percent are Caucasian.

Over the past year, other companies including Google and Facebook have started to share numbers around their hiring of women and minorities.

As is reflected in every diversity report I reviewed, Hudnell said that there is plenty more work to do and that it will take time before the Silicon Valley workforce is reflective of the broader population.

Intel said about 54 per cent of its 53,702 US employees were white and about 32 per cent were Asian as of July.

In the U.S., 11 percent of its retail workers are African American, 15 percent are Hispanic, seven percent are Asian and 56 percent are white.

“It’s so much bigger than hiring to what’s available”, an Apple spokeswoman said.

“In total, this represents the largest group of employees we’ve ever hired from underrepresented groups in a single year”, Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook wrote on the company’s website.

In the report, the company writes: “We have embraced the bold diversity vision we set ourselves and made headway in improving the pipeline of qualified diverse students and in making the gaming industry more inclusive”.