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General Motors has announced a new partnership with education nonprofit Girls Who Code that's intended to encourage more young women to pursue STEM subjects. The auto manufacturer will offer up a $250,000 grant to help fund after-school STEM clubs in schools, universities, and community centers.
"Becoming an engineer paved the way for my career," said GM CEO Mary Barra in a statement posted to the company's website. "It's one of the reasons I am passionate about promoting STEM education to students everywhere. Partnering with Girls Who Code is one more step in GM's commitment to inspiring and growing diverse future leaders."
[...] GM and Girls Who Code are pursuing this collaboration is [sic] response to the decreasing proportion of women in jobs related to computing, even as the field continues to grow. In 1995, 37 percent of the computing workforce was comprised of women, but today that has shrunk to 24 percent.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday January 11 2017, @08:33PM
It can get worse than open plan offices.
A buddy of mine used to work as a consultant at Price-Waterhouse Coopers. Their "desks" looked like a shelf in a bookshelf, arranged in aisles like a library. And even those they had to check out every day when they got to the office. It was a practice called "hotelling." The bean counters decided it was more efficient for the bottom line that way, and would de-construct the territoriality that arises when people gun for the corner offices. As an employee it meant you were utterly dehumanized and could not even keep a picture of your kids at your station without the cleaning staff throwing it out at night. My buddy's classmate from grad school had also landed a job there and would weep every morning at the thought of going back there.
After seeing that it made absolute sense why people would go postal.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 12 2017, @01:26PM
"Hotelling" is atrocious. It was started in one of the companies I had worked as a contractor, the description of my former coworkers can be summarized in one word: "atrocious". It is pure BS policy & very bad for team engagement...
Here is another good one I've experienced: in another company, where contractors (60 to 80% of the team, depending on which team you were) are treated like 2d class. For instance: you didn't get a full desk. We had to fit 3 contractors on 2 desks. I leave to your imagination the problems to fit the monitors, documents, problems with left-handed people sitting besides right-handed (mouse issues), etc.