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Apple Releases 2015 EEO-1 Diversity Data Over Weekend (qz.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the here's-who-we-are dept.

theodp writes: Just days after it came under fire for dismissing a call for diversity as "unduly burdensome and not necessary," Apple quietly released its 2015 EEO-1 diversity report (dated 10/6/2015, reflects the 8/1 payroll). Like other tech companies' diversity disclosures, Apple's EEO-1 raw numbers can't really be reconciled to the percentages based on undisclosed raw numbers that grace the infographic-heavy diversity progress narrative CEO Tim Cook spoke to last August. As to why they keep two sets of diversity books, Apple explains, "The EEO-1 has not kept pace with changes in industry or the American workforce over the past half century. We believe the information we report elsewhere on this site is a far more accurate reflection of our progress toward diversity." Taking this stance allows Apple CEO Tim Cook to boast that "in the United States, we hired more than 2,200 Black employees — a 50 percent increase over last year," while ignoring Apple's EEO-1 report, which indicates that Black employees showed a year-over-year net increase of only 1,475 employees and accounted for only 1.9% of the 4,333 YOY net increase in "Professionals" at Apple (White employees accounted for 50.6%, Asian for 42.1%). If you want to check the math, Apple's EEO-1 data (typed in from the content-copy-not-allowed 2015 and 2014 PDFs) and additional charts can be found in this Tableau workbook.

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  1. Re:Why is this important? by Kohath · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because dividing people is one of the routes to power. Here's the plan:

    1. Find a population of people who are doing adequately. Not perfectly, but they're getting by.

    2. Divide them into 2 groups. Encourage one group to hate the other. Hatred between the groups can be based on
    - Fictional stories
    - True stories of bad things that happened to people who died a very long time ago
    - Envy
    - Minor problems hyped up into a major drama
    - Entitlement mentality
    - Or something else. It's not hard. People hating each other is built into human nature.

    3. Lead (or "organize") one of the groups against the other. Viola! You're the leader, you have power. Now you can use your power to demand payments -- which you'll get to keep a large part of.

    That's what "organizers" do. They're fighting for you!

    That's why employees must be categorized by ethnicity.