A year after pledging a wide-ranging slate of diversity goals, Estee Lauder says it’s made strides on its internal anti-racism work — and that it still has further to go.
The cosmetics giant, which has now taught a racial bias class to 94% of its U.S. corporate and field employees, will be rolling out similar training worldwide over the next fiscal year, according to an internal memo reviewed byBloomberg News. It has also boosted diverse hiring, with 9.2% of new U.S. roles filled by Black candidates in the year through June 2021, an increase of 3 percentage points year over year. The company didn’t say in the memo how many of those new hires were in management roles.
