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Twitter has 49 black employees in workforce of nearly 3,000
JASON SILVERSTEIN NEW YORK DAILY NEWSUpdated: 07/02/2015 12:51 PM ET
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Twitter has only 49 black employees, and its employment numbers for most other minority groups are no better, according to its latest Equal Employment Opportunity report.
The names of every black employee at Twitter could fit into a few tweets.
The technolgy company has only 49 black employees in an American workforce of 2,910, according to the company’s 2014 Equal Employment Opportunity report.
Across the board, its employment of most minorities deserves a #dismal hashtag — whites and Asians comprise 93.8% of Twitter’s workforce, with all other ethnicities represented by only a few dozen employees, if that.
This comes after the company's vice president of diversity and inclusion declared in a blog post last summer that Twitter was "making diversity an important business issue for ourselves."
Ironically, black users dominate the medium itself — 27% of black adults use Twitter, compared to 21% of white adults, according to the Pew Research Center. In 2015 especially, Twitter has proven an essential tool for the “Black Lives Matter” movement and the promotion of causes and demonstrations tied to it.
The company’s diversity stats have already drawn outrage from one black leader.
“I am very disappointed,” the Rev. Jesse Jackson told the Guardian on Wednesday.
“Black people are greater users of the product and capable of doing the jobs, but there has not been an adequate commitment to hire, train and maintain (them).”
He added: “They hire people they know, they trust and like. We’re not in that the circle.”
Those numbers also put Twitter in line with fellow social media giant Facebook, where blacks comprise just 2% of the workforce as of this year. Google, too, shares that percentage.
Facebook barely beats Twitter’s toll of black employees — thanks to seven black hires out of 1,231 new employees in 2013, according to its latest EEO filing.
Twitter’s stats also show a striking gender imbalance, with men making up 70% of its workforce.
A Twitter spokesperson said the 2015 employee diversity report will be released by the end of the year.
JASON SILVERSTEIN NEW YORK DAILY NEWSUpdated: 07/02/2015 12:51 PM ET
MARY TURNER/GETTY IMAGES
Twitter has only 49 black employees, and its employment numbers for most other minority groups are no better, according to its latest Equal Employment Opportunity report.
The names of every black employee at Twitter could fit into a few tweets.
The technolgy company has only 49 black employees in an American workforce of 2,910, according to the company’s 2014 Equal Employment Opportunity report.
Across the board, its employment of most minorities deserves a #dismal hashtag — whites and Asians comprise 93.8% of Twitter’s workforce, with all other ethnicities represented by only a few dozen employees, if that.
This comes after the company's vice president of diversity and inclusion declared in a blog post last summer that Twitter was "making diversity an important business issue for ourselves."
Ironically, black users dominate the medium itself — 27% of black adults use Twitter, compared to 21% of white adults, according to the Pew Research Center. In 2015 especially, Twitter has proven an essential tool for the “Black Lives Matter” movement and the promotion of causes and demonstrations tied to it.
The company’s diversity stats have already drawn outrage from one black leader.
“I am very disappointed,” the Rev. Jesse Jackson told the Guardian on Wednesday.
“Black people are greater users of the product and capable of doing the jobs, but there has not been an adequate commitment to hire, train and maintain (them).”
He added: “They hire people they know, they trust and like. We’re not in that the circle.”
Those numbers also put Twitter in line with fellow social media giant Facebook, where blacks comprise just 2% of the workforce as of this year. Google, too, shares that percentage.
Facebook barely beats Twitter’s toll of black employees — thanks to seven black hires out of 1,231 new employees in 2013, according to its latest EEO filing.
Twitter’s stats also show a striking gender imbalance, with men making up 70% of its workforce.
A Twitter spokesperson said the 2015 employee diversity report will be released by the end of the year.
