(CIO Dive) In recent years, top-flight tech companies devoted resources and laid out plans to address diversity and cultural challenges within their organizations. Despite efforts, the data show improvement has been minimal in terms of the racial composition of the IT workforce.
“We haven’t seen the increase because there hasn’t been a real commitment to addressing the issues that have kept people out,” said Rachel Goins, a co-author of the report and director of Program Implementation at the Kapor Center, a nonprofit focused on diversity in tech and entrepreneurship. Companies have failed to put in place cultural change that enables retention of Black tech workers “once they do get through the door,” Goins said, such as biases in the assignment of key projects.
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