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

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.

Comments

Re: we hired more than 2,200 Black employees

[amiga3D]

See, it's shitstains like you that cause the problems. If we could just get the bigots to shut the fuck up and quit agitating everyone maybe we could fix some things but nooooooooooooo! Dickweeds like you pop out of the woodwork like cockroaches every single time. We've got you idiots on one side and Jesse and Al on the other.

Re: Need to replace Asians with everyone else?

[SuperKendall]

Ask me how I know you're a bigot.

Doesn't make it right, no matter the target.

Hate ends when everyone learns to stop hating... you included.

Re: we hired more than 2,200 Black employees

[Anonymous Coward]

Now that's raciest. Everyone knows there's significantly more qualified minorities than there are blacks who can do math. But they are musical, aren't they?