Hachette Book Group Saw Diversity Gains in Staff, Book Acquisitions in 2020
By Jim Milliot
May 13, 2021
BIPOC employees represented 47.8% of new hires by the Hachette Book Group in 2020, and the percentage of titles acquired from BIPOC authors and illustrators increased to 29%, from 22%. CEO Michael Pietsch acknowledged that despite the improvement, much more work needs to be done.
Hachette Book Group Saw Diversity Gains in Staff, Book Acquisitions in 2020
By Jim Milliot
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May 13, 2021
Hachette Book Group made progress in diversifying its workforce and book acquisitions in 2020, but CEO Michael Pietsch acknowledged that there is much more work to be done.
According to the publisher’s second annual diversity update report, 47.8% of new hires in 2020 identified as BIPOC, led by the recruitment of new Hispanic/Latinx employees, who represented 37.5% of all new staffers. With the new diversity effort, white people now account for 67.1% of HBG's total workforce, down from 69% in 2019. (For the 2020 report, HBG began measuring its diversity levels by one-tenth of a percentage point.) Hispanic/Latinx staffers now represent 20% of HBG’s workforce, according to the report, followed by Asian employees (6.7%) and Black staffers (3.9%).