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Google Searches Its Soul
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Google Searches Its Soul

Inside the Search Giant's Effort to Get More Diverse - and to Change the Way We All See the World.

Fortune, 2017

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Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Applicable

Recommendation

In recent years, Silicon Valley workplace statistics show that tech companies increasingly find themselves inside a homogeneous bubble. In a Fortune magazine analysis, writer Ellen McGirt interviews Google employees to discover how the company is working to become a more inclusive employer, in part, to strengthen its competitive advantage. getAbstract recommends this article to everyone interested in Google, Silicon Valley and diversity issues.

Take-Aways

  • Google has a problem: It simply isn’t a diverse workplace.
  • In 2016, out of the company’s 46,000 US-based employees, 71% were male and 57%  of employees were white.
  • In 2015, Google’s photo search tool began tagging pictures of black people as gorillas. The problem may have been noticed sooner if the company were more diverse.

About the Author

Ellen McGirt covers issues of race, culture and inclusion for Fortune in a daily column called raceAhead.