10 companies with the best CEOs, according to BIPOC employees

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Diversity, equity and inclusion is more than just a passing workplace trend. But as more and more companies begin making DEI a core part of their institution, some stand out more than others. 

In 2022, 71% of companies reported that they had implemented many DEI-related actions since 2020, according to KPMG's 2022 DEI progress survey. In an effort to highlight a few, workplace review platform Comparably recently released its 6th annual list of Best CEOs and companies that champion diversity and support their BIPOC employees, based solely on ratings from employees of color posted to Comparably.com from May 2022 to May 2023. 

BIPOC employees across 70,000 North American companies were asked questions pertaining to the inclusivity of their employers. The answers were then given a numerical score out of five and compared to companies of similar size. 

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IBM, ADP and RingCentral rounded out the top three of Comparably's list, scoring at least a 4.5 out of five for their culture score, which ranks a company against 18 different metrics including gender, ethnicity, age, experience, industry, location and education. The CEOs of those companies were also ranked highly by their BIPOC employees — IBM's was given a score of 86 out of 100, ADP's 88 and RingCentral's 91. 

Tech companies including Microsoft and HubSpot dominated the rest of Comparably's ranking overall, a particularly interesting finding as the tech industry has been known to struggle with diversity initiatives in the past. In 2022, white employees accounted for 62% of the tech industry, according to workplace insights platform Zippia. In comparison, Black Americans represented only 7% of tech employees, Latinx Americans 8%, and Asian Americans 20%. 

See which companies are top rated by their employees of color according to Comparably — and the CEOs making it possible:

IBM

Culture score: 4.7 out of 5
CEO: Arvind Krishna
CEO score: 86 out of 100

ADP

Culture score: 4.9 out of 5
CEO: Maria Black
CEO score: 88 out of 100

RingCentral

Culture score: 4.9 out of 5
CEO: Vladimir Shmunis
CEO score: 91 out of 100

Workday

Culture score: 4.8 out of 5
CEOs: Aneel Bhusri and Carl Eschenbach
CEO score: 90 out of 100

Chegg

Culture score: 4.9 out of 5
CEO: Dan Rosenweig
CEO score: 93 out of 100

Informatica

Culture score: 4.9 out of 5
CEO: Amit Walia
CEO score: 90 out of 100

HubSpot

Culture score: 4.9 out of 5
CEO: Yamini Rangan
CEO score: 92 out of 100

Uber

Culture score: 4.8 out of 5
CEO: Dara Khosrowshahi
CEO score: 89 out of 100

Elsevier

Culture score: 4.9 out of 5
CEO: Kumsal Bayazit
CEO score: 91 out of 100

Microsoft

Culture score: 4.6 out of 5
CEO: Staya Nadella
CEO score: 84 out of 100
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