The company’s leadership is still overwhelmingly white and male-72 percent of the company’s managers are men, and 63 percent are white.
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The story behind the story: It’s not exactly clear how Apple’s internal metrics differ from the ones used by the government for the EEO-1 report, though Apple’s own numbers paint the company in a better light. An Apple spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
On Apple’s website, the company said that 11 percent of its new US hires within the past year were black, 13 percent were Hispanic and 19 percent were Asian.
Last year, Apple CEO Tim Cook pledged to improve diversity across the company in an official post, calling it “critical to innovation” and “essential to Apple’s future”.
About 30 percent of Apple’s US employees were females as of August, compared with 28.7 percent.
Looking back at the year, the EEO-1 report shows that Apple hired 6,378 white employees until August 2015, which is 59% of the company’s workforce in the United States. The social networking company recently hired away Apple’s former diversity head, Jeffrey Siminoff – under whom many of Apple’s more recent diversity initiatives began.
Apple Inc has made progress on boosting gender and racial diversity in its US workforce, a regulatory document filed by the iPhone maker showed. Moreover, the company goes as far as to say that federal authorities have not kept up with changes in the American workforce industry. “We aspire to make a difference beyond Apple”. “We believe that the proposal is unduly burdensome and not necessary because Apple has demonstrated to shareholders its commitment to inclusion and diversity, which are core values for our company”, the board said in its advice to shareholders.
Apple released its diversity report – effectively an overview of who Apple employs and where – over the weekend and the results are much the same as 2014. In the aftermath, Apple was asked to promote an “accelerated recruitment policy”, although it has argued against this.
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The proposal will be voted on at Apple’s 2016 AGM on 26 February.
