2,445 IBM Employees Openly Condemned IBM for Enabling Racist Regimes
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#2Are they asking management to pull out of having any operations in China and India?
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#3> (2) Expand our diversity recruitment programs specifically targeting women, people of color, and LGBT people with the goal of doubling recruitment of these groups in 2017 and steadily increasing the share of these groups as a proportion of new hiring in subsequent years.
Initiatives like this worry me that we'll end up like my previous employer where we were off-the-record instructed not to hire a white male for our open position.
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#4Broken db
Re: 2,445 IBM Employees Openly Condemned IBM for Enabling Racist Regimes
#5> (2) Expand our diversity recruitment programs specifically targeting women, people of color, and LGBT people with the goal of doubling recruitment of these groups in 2017 and steadily increasing the share of these groups as a proportion of new hiring in subsequent years. Initiatives like this worry me that we'll end up like my previous employer where we were off-the-record instructed not to hire a white male for ou…
It's already happening.
Re: 2,445 IBM Employees Openly Condemned IBM for Enabling Racist Regimes
#6> (2) Expand our diversity recruitment programs specifically targeting women, people of color, and LGBT people with the goal of doubling recruitment of these groups in 2017 and steadily increasing the share of these groups as a proportion of new hiring in subsequent years. Initiatives like this worry me that we'll end up like my previous employer where we were off-the-record instructed not to hire a white male for ou…
Yes, “don’t hire white men” is a much different policy than “please increase your funnel and hire more non white cis hereto men”. I would argue your previous employer more or less just misses the point of these things.
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#7Are they asking management to pull out of having any operations in China and India?
Are they asking management to pull out of the USA?
Which has conducted illegal wars, and pulled out of nuclear talks with Iran.
Re: 2,445 IBM Employees Openly Condemned IBM for Enabling Racist Regimes
#8> (2) Expand our diversity recruitment programs specifically targeting women, people of color, and LGBT people with the goal of doubling recruitment of these groups in 2017 and steadily increasing the share of these groups as a proportion of new hiring in subsequent years. Initiatives like this worry me that we'll end up like my previous employer where we were off-the-record instructed not to hire a white male for ou…
It's already happening.
The technical University of Eindhoven (the Netherlands) announced they'd only hire women from a certain point in time on and they did for months. Then a judge called them back. In their defense, it was needed, almost all professors were male so I understand how they came to this action. Generally I think it is better to stimulate people to hire outside their comfort-zone and build heterogeneous teams in all dimensions.
Re: 2,445 IBM Employees Openly Condemned IBM for Enabling Racist Regimes
#9> (2) Expand our diversity recruitment programs specifically targeting women, people of color, and LGBT people with the goal of doubling recruitment of these groups in 2017 and steadily increasing the share of these groups as a proportion of new hiring in subsequent years. Initiatives like this worry me that we'll end up like my previous employer where we were off-the-record instructed not to hire a white male for ou…
Yes, “don’t hire white men” is a much different policy than “please increase your funnel and hire more non white cis hereto men”. I would argue your previous employer more or less just misses the point of these things.
But that's the whole issue. Policy versus practice.
I'm usually hard pressed to find people who disagree with the thought of "we should try to hire people other than white men in a white men dominated profession".
The issue comes when the unspoken (OP's "off the record") enforcement of this is willful hate towards those people.
Re: 2,445 IBM Employees Openly Condemned IBM for Enabling Racist Regimes
#10Are they asking management to pull out of having any operations in China and India?
Are they asking management to pull out of the USA? Which has conducted illegal wars, and pulled out of nuclear talks with Iran.
Unfortunately, the US legal system has inadvertently legalized all wars/conflicts the military happens to be a part of.
This is a consequence of so many things...