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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.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @02:55PM
Anyone who's not like me must be amazing, everyone sure wants to get more of not me, I guess I deserve to be undesirable, i was born with penis and without pigment. I'm that horrible default everyone is stuck with when they can't find something more diverse.
Because diversity means don't hire me, I'm just the last resort.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @04:57PM
You're what's wrong with the world. Not because you apparently have a penis, but because you're an irrational moron with a persecution complex.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday August 05 2015, @10:05PM
You're an albino?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.