Diversity and equality

The software maker said it increased the proportion of both groups by 0.3 percentage points in the past year, with Black workers rising to 4.9% of its U.S. workforce and Latino employees increasing to 6.6%.

One out of four women said they may downshift their careers or leave the workforce entirely, threatening decades of career progress for female employees.

Racial and gender representation increased in most areas of the company, including among senior management, according to data from the bank.

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The higher education benefit is increasing the company’s retention and advancement rates.

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COVID-19 has many professional women reevaluating their priorities.

As many as tens of millions of women may never return to the labor force, even after a vaccine is found. Altogether, global gross domestic product could be $1 trillion less in 2030 than it would be without a gender unemployment gap.

The initiative is part of a broader push to compel workforce transparency at companies that have made explicit statements of support for equality.

For EAPs, delivering culturally competent care means understanding the needs of a diverse workforce and ensuring that the elements of all services meet those needs strategically.

Google parent Alphabet pledged $310 million to expand diversity efforts and resolve shareholder litigation that alleged the company’s board to failed to prevent sexual harassment and hid misconduct by executives.

“Many companies seek to create trans inclusive benefits packages, but their employees oftentimes don’t use the benefits provided because of fear of harassment in the process of accessing healthcare,” says Soltan Bryce, head of growth at Plume.

Within the first six months, employees on the spectrum were 48% more productive than their non-spectrum peers who had been at the same job for three to ten years.

The biggest maker of networking equipment said its goal is to increase the company’s workforce of Black people by 25% by 2023 in the entry-level to manager levels.

The bank that Jane Fraser takes over in February pays women just 73 cents for every $1 men get, an even wider gap than the national average. And short of 40% of Citigroup’s managers are female.

“It's still one of the most underserved communities when it comes to safe, accessible and reliable healthcare,” says Soltan Bryce, the head of growth at Plume.

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Citigroup has finally taken a hammer to one of the most-glaring glass ceilings in the finance world after announcing Jane Fraser would become its next CEO.

Among the quarter of American employees still working at home because of the pandemic, a majority were in jobs such as computer science, legal and finance.