“Black lives matter,” declared Microsoft as part of its promise to implement racial personnel quotas as it works towards “addressing racial injustice.”
On Tuesday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared the company’s racial calculus on Microsoft’s official blog. He sent the following information via email to the firm’s employees:
As I shared in our Employee Town Hall last month, and in my email earlier this month, we are committed to take action to help address racial injustice and inequity, and unequivocally believe that Black lives matter. Below you will see many of the steps we are taking.
Over the past several weeks, the senior leadership team, board of directors, and I have spent time reflecting, listening, learning, and discussing what role the company – and all of us collectively – must play in helping to drive change, both within Microsoft and in our communities. With significant input from employees and leaders who are members of the Black and African American community, we have developed a set of actions that we believe are both meaningful to improving the lived experience at Microsoft, as well as driving change in the communities in which we live and work.
Today, we are making commitments to address racial injustice and inequity for the Black and African American community in the United States. We will additionally take important steps to address the needs of other communities, including the Hispanic and Latinx community, across the company in the next five years.
Microsoft “will double the number of Black and African American people managers, senior individual contributors, and senior leaders in the United States by 2025,” wrote Nadella, promising an additional $150 million of “diversity and inclusion investment.”
A “cultural transformation” at Microsoft will begin with black employees, and will continue to “other employee groups,” according to the technology company. Microsoft used the terms “allyship,” privilege,” and “systemic obstacles” in a three-point outline of its new policy . . .
Robert Kraychik – Breitbart – June 24, 2020.
