In the US, the company said it hired more than 2,200 black employees and 2,700 Hispanic employees.
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“In total, this represents the largest group of employees we’ve ever hired from underrepresented groups in a single year”, Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook wrote on the company’s website.
Global gender now sits at a 69/31 split, a percent difference between last years 70/30 ratio. The company said that it had hired 65 percent more women in the last year than in the previous 12 months.
Apple reported that 19 percent of its new hires in the US this year were Asian, 13 percent Hispanic and 11 percent black.
Cook acknowledged the discrepancy, saying “Some people will read this page and see our progress”.
In one other key class, Apple stated the quantity of whites in US-based mostly management positions dropped to sixty three% from sixty four%, however the numbers of Asians, Hispanics and blacks stayed the identical at 21%, 6% and 3%, respectively.
“It’s so much bigger than hiring to what’s available”, an Apple spokeswoman said. 50% of the hires made this year have been part of underrepresented groups at Apple; however, the company has yet to significantly surpass the statistics on diversity at other tech companies, like Facebook and Google. Cook also said that 50% of the employees the company has hired so far in 2015 have been women or minorities. Leaders are 72 percent male and 63 percent white. A breakdown of Apple’s top brass-the 83 employees that comprise its leadership-mirrors Silicon Valley’s imbalance across gender and race. Now, in the midst of half-through the current year, the chip maker says that its diversity report showed progress or paying its dividends.
This means fostering diversity not just at Apple but throughout our entire ecosystem, from the customers we welcome in our stores to the suppliers and developers we work with.
Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition will be working with Intel on the diversity initiative, he said.
Apple and Intel are both making progress in their efforts to hire more women and minorities, according to figures released by the companies this week. “Now Apple has leaned in”.
As the news picks up, more companies will focus on the diversity in their workforce to show equal employment and Corporate Social Responsibility towards the local society.
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The “diversity challenge…didn’t happen overnight, so it’s not going to be changed overnight”, Denise Young Smith, Apple’s vice president of worldwide human resources, said last month during the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colorado.
