Target suffered a slight decline in its share of Black workers over the past year, complicating its goal to boost minority representation.
The proportion of Target employees who identify as Black or African-American declined by 0.7 percentage points between 2019 and 2020, a spokeswoman said by phone. The decline wasn’t large enough to register in the company’s new diversity report, which showed Black employees making up 15% of Target’s 350,000-person workforce, the same amount as in 2019. The share of Black managers or senior leaders also was unchanged, while the percentage of Black officers — vice presidents and above — increased to 9% from 5%.
