- Microsoft released a report that revealed it hired more women and minorities in 2019. These are the details.
Microsoft recently released a report that revealed the company hired more women and minorities in 2019. Specifically, the number of female employees increased by 12% in fiscal 2019, including an 18% increase in technical roles and 15% in Microsoft’s executive ranks.
However, women only make up 28% of the total workforce. And in the U.S., only 4.5% of employees identified as African American or black, and 6.3% were identified as Hispanic or Latinx. Plus the number of African American or black workers increased 17%, while the Hispanic or Latinx employee count grew 13%.
“I’m really encouraged by the fact that we are starting to see some momentum and making progress throughout the layers of the company for all the markers we are tracking,” said Microsoft chief diversity officer Lindsay-Rae McIntyre via Bloomberg. “But we aren’t done.”
These figures exclude the companies that Microsoft acquired and runs independently like GitHub and LinkedIn. And Microsoft reported similar trends for most groups while including those businesses.
“In 2019, we made progress on our diversity and inclusion objectives, as reflected in the numbers. But there is another part of our journey that year-over-year data can’t convey: the depth of our commitment and the range of programs in place to keep diversity and inclusion at the heart of the work we do. And although we’re gratified to see the movement, we know we cannot take our focus off the work that needs to continue,” wrote McIntyre in a blog post.
