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Apple boasted improved gender and ethnic diversity

According to last year’s report to Apple about the ethnic diversity of the staff, the ma jority (55%) of full-time employees in the US are white, 15% Asian, 11% Hispanic and 7% black. With 70% of staff are men. As it turned out, Apple’s management strongly dissatisfied demographic structure of the staff and have decided to gradually change it.

As told the human resources Manager Apple Denise young Smith, since then, the Corporation has improved gender and ethnic diversity of staff. A new course in corporate hiring policy increased the share of women among hired employees to 35%, and black – up to 8%.

Top Manager stressed that in matters of socio-cultural diversity the company from Cupertino is beyond such traditional categories as race, gender, and nationality and who are “generally not used”, such as veteran status hostilities, sexual orientation, disability.

As for ethnic diversity, Apple still have to strive for, said the young Smith. According to the Bureau of census of the U.S. population, the U.S. accounts for 13% of the population is black. “The potential for improvement is always there,” added chief personnel officer of Apple. We are working hard to expand the diversity of our employees.” According to her, Apple has always been and will remain a strong supporter of diversity in all spheres of its activity: starting with production and ending with the official retail.

Not so long ago, Tim cook said that Apple is an important shared values and cultural diversity. The diversity of our employees is a “future” and not just declared values, he said. The CEO is convinced that “teams with a wide variety of create the best products”.

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Disclosure of information about the structure of the staff – a noticeable trend recently in Silicon valley. Until Apple shared these figures Google, Facebook and Yahoo. Picture all of the companies were almost the same, everywhere among employees is dominated by white men.

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