The New York Times giving companies advice on how to be more profitable? That's amusing.
Why do I think it likely that this will lead ONLY to padding the payrolls with some highly-visible “token” employees of one or two politically-favored “minority groups,” (and probably poorly qualified, to boot?) ... while leaving intact the very longstanding discriminatory practices of some of SillyCon Valley’s leading/largest/most famous corporations?
(whereby exceptionally-highly qualified people from the most famous, highest=ranked universities...frequently can’t even get interviews)
These discriminatory practices apply to several “minority groups” (race/religion/etc.). If history is any guide, well-qualified people who have suffered this type of discrimination for years and decades...won’t be helped at all...
Note: either you fit in to the management’s ideas of “its own crowd” — or you’re a candidate from Communist China (or India) who will work cheap (and let’s face it, most of them do work hard, too)
Those foreign hires are just about the only exception to a blanket discriminatory climate
and there are a TON of foreign hires, the electronics industry has loved their special visa program for a very long time, enabling them to import cheaper workers from foreign lands
Just anecdotally, I was talking to a very smart woman (MS EE on the board of a major university EE department) who was bemoaning being left out of a team because of the “brogrammer” meme that seems to arise spontaneously in startups.
Well, it looks like there will be many, many new human resources managers and executive VP’s at each of the offending, discriminating leftist companies. They won’t get away with hiring custodians and guards, executive level employment is the only acceptable response.
No one at the NYT has ever been to Silicon Valley.
Taiwan, Chinese, Indian vastly outnumber WASP’s