LinkedIn Staffers Go All-Lives-Matter During ‘Dumpster Fire’ Meeting on Racism
Maxwell Tani, Media Reporter @ thedailybeast.com
Updated Jun. 05, 2020 3:54AM ET / Published Jun. 04, 2020 7:25PM ET
LinkedIn prides itself on being the highly professional, troll-free antithesis to all other social-media platforms. But on Wednesday, the company’s own internal meetings looked more like a “dumpster fire” Facebook comments section than anything on the company’s famously civil website.
Over the past several years, a number of major tech companies have been roiled by internal dissension over diversity policies and initiatives. LinkedIn itself has continued to struggle with boosting its inclusivity. The company’s 2019 workforce diversity report admitted that “we’ve discovered that we need to evolve the way we hire at scale and think innovatively to address specific hiring needs. For example, hiring more leaders from underrepresented groups in the U.S., including more Black and Latino leaders, is a critical priority for us.” According to the report, LinkedIn had just 3.5% black and 5.9% Latino staffing compared to a white (47.5%) and Asian (40.3%) employees. Read the article HERE.