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posted by takyon on Wednesday August 05 2015, @01:40AM   Printer-friendly
from the we-all-gotta-chip-in dept.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Intel is doubling referral bonuses for women, minorities and veterans. Employees can receive $4,000 bonuses for suggesting candidates that meet the company's diversity goals. Intel had previously pledged $300 million over the next five years to address "Silicon Valley's disappointing diversity numbers," and has set a goal of "full representation" of women and under-represented minorities by 2020:

The new programs at Intel and across the tech sector come as companies report little-changed diversity numbers. Intel's diversity statistics for 2014 showed 24 percent of Intel employees are female. The company is also predominantly white and Asian, with only 3.5% black and 8% Latino employees. The company did not include statistics about veterans in its report.

Christine Dotts, a spokeswoman for Intel, said in an email that higher recruiting bonuses have been used by the company in the last decade, but she declined to comment on when or how much the bonuses were for.

Also at The Register.


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @08:51AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @08:51AM (#218403)

    This wasn't a question of the type "when did you stop beating your wife". "None of it" is a perfectly reasonable answer to a "How much of" question. This is unlike the "When did you stop" question where any answer, including "never", implies that you were doing it to begin with.

    Of course the question was suggestive. The "when did you stop" question is of course also suggestive: It suggests that the one asked indeed did stop beating his wife. But the point of that question (just like with the normally used form "did you stop") is not that it is suggestive (the "did you stop" isn't, BTW), but that it contains a presupposition that is implicitly acknowledged by any "proper" answer of the question (namely that the one asked indeed did at some point beat his wife). Such a presupposition was not present in the OP's question.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @02:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @02:55PM (#218562)

    > Of course the question was suggestive. The "when did you stop" question is of course also suggestive

    Hooray for the trees! Too bad you completely missed the forest.

    All that effort explaining why the question wasn't suggestive in precisely the same way is completely irrelevant to the point.
    What a triumph for literalism! What a failure for insight!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @03:30PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @03:30PM (#218588)

      You were incorrect. The question wasn't a "When did you stop beating your wife?"-type question.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @11:34PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @11:34PM (#218842)

        Another triumph for literalism!
        You are indeed a wise man.