Netflix
The company’s latest quarterly demographics data reveals that women comprise nearly half of its worldwide workforce, while 45.5 percent of its U.S. employees are white.
In August 2018, Netflix hired veteran diversity consultant Vernā Myers as its first-ever vice president of inclusion strategy, a move that came after an internal crisis in which its then-chief communications officer used the N-word in multiple conversations with colleagues and was fired.
The company has now revealed the efforts of Myers’ team so far in its first-ever inclusion report. Penned by Myers and accompanied by a nine-minute short film featuring a diverse cross-section of employees across Netflix, the report’s title “Sowing the Seeds: Inclusion Takes Root at Netflix” frames the past two years as a foundation-laying chapter in its ongoing work to cultivate a culture of inclusion at the company.
Netflix’s First Inclusion Report Cites Progress, Acknowledges Need to Improve Recruitment of Hispanics Variety 1/13/2021
Netflix, like other tech companies, has regularly published data about the diversity of its workforce since 2013. Now the streamer has released its first “inclusion report,” in which the company details its strategy to improve diversity and where it has fallen short.
“We’ve made good progress over the last three years. But let’s be clear, we’re not where we want to be and we need to do better,” Vernā Myers, Netflix’s VP of inclusion strategy, said in the report.
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