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Tech Companies: Leadership Positions and Diversity Numbers

tech companies: Despite loudly touted efforts to hire more blacks, Latinos and women, especially in technical and leadership positions, diversity numbers at the largest tech companies are barely budging, according to CBC. Want to increase workplace diversity Go in 'blind,' says entrepreneur In 2014, two per cent of Googlers were black and three per cent were Hispanic, numbers that have not changed since. But when it comes to racial and gender diversity, its leading companies are no trailblazers. The picture is similar at Facebook and Twitter. Amazon is more racially diverse still, although it counts a large, lower-wage warehouse workforce in its totals. Microsoft is slightly more racially diverse though not when it comes to gender and Apple even more so, though still not reflective of the U.S. population. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.