While Apple’s long been criticized as a hiring mostly white males, the company has made some big improvements in the last year, hiring its largest-ever group of employees from underrepresented groups.
More than 11,000 women were hired by Apple last year, marking a 65 percent increase over the previous year, according to information on Apple’s Inclusion and Diversity page, which was updated today. The page shows the company’s latest numbers on the percentage of employees it’s hired based on ethnicity and gender.
In the United States, Apple has increased its hiring of black and Hispanic employees by 50 percent and 66 percent over the last year. In an open letter according the Apple diversity report, CEO Tim Cook says the company spent more than $650 million on women- and minority-owned businesses last year; however, the company recognizes it still has room for improvement.
“Some people will read this page and see our progress. Others will recognize how much farther we have to go. We see both,” writes Cook. “And more important than these statistics, we see tens of thousands of Apple employees all over the world, speaking dozens of languages, working together. We celebrate their differences and the many benefits we and our customers enjoy as a result.”
Apple says 2015 has been its most diverse hiring year ever. The company’s global gender split is now 69 percent male and 31 percent female, which is a marginal improvement over last year’s 70-30 split.
Apple’s global percentage of white employees dropped to 54 percent — it was 55 percent last year — while its percentage of black employees increased to 8 percent, up from 7 percent in 2014. Asian employees saw the largest increase, from 15 percent in 2014 to 18 percent in 2015.
Source: Apple
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
6 responses to “Apple diversity report shows progress, but more work to be done”
Yeah, I find it all a bit disingenuous. I think making sure high-paying engineering etc. jobs are equally emphasised to everyone as a good option makes perfect sense, and I can’t imagine anyone disagreeing with that. But once you get to college/university level it should become about the person best qualified for the job. To me, these stats are meaningless without a comparable list of available candidates. If those people are 80 percent male and white, how is Apple at fault?
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Hiring an employee for any reason other than his or her qualifications is the race to the bottom. Diversity is nothing but racism and sexism.
I can kind of see where the pro-diversity crowd are coming from, but I think they’re going about it in the wrong way. People have different skills and having more than just white men from similar backgrounds could spur some interesting out-of-the-box thinking that you may not otherwise get. Plus, tech is a great field to go into. But I’d much rather see money poured into education so that everyone gets it presented as an opportunity from early in their lives, rather than just arbitrarily doing selective hiring to hit quotas.
Wouldn’t it be cool if they would hire the best candidate for the job?
I thought that that was the whole deal of the liberal agenda . . . equality. I guess I am a homophobe, racist, hate monger, blah, blah, blah believer in the Constitution, ya know the whole life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness thing. Equal opportunity to succeed. The new PC society it’s all about equal numbers?