Pinterest, a photo-sharing business wanted everybody to know that it desired to employ more women and people coming from minority background, so as to promote diversity in the workplace.
In his blog post, co-founder of Pinterest Evan Sharp announced Thursday the firm goals for enlisting more diverse workers in 2016. It has pionereed in Silicon Valley among its peers to divulge such detailed information on hiring procedures and demographics goals.
Mr. Sharp stated, "By sharing these goals publicly, we're holding ourselves accountable to make meaningful changes to how we approach diversity at Pinterest."
"We'll also be sharing what's working and what isn't as we go, so hopefully other companies can learn along with us."
The company only has 42 percent female workers, while about 85 percent of Pinterest users are females. Pinterest's engineering department was only 19 percent female. Pinterest wanted to increase that figure to 30 percent by 2016, as per The Christian Science Monitor.
By hiring more people coming from the minority and more women, Pinterest is moving one step forward than other rival companies to level up the quite low diversity statistics.
According to The Next Digit, it is not Pinterest's first time to rally on this mission. A Pinterest engineer called out a number of top notch firms to release the statistics in diversity via a blog called "Medium." In 2014, companies such as Apple, Google and Facebook joined this movement and delivered the reports of the percentages of diversity within the company. The results clearly showed that white people still dominated other races.
Helping Pinterest achieving diversity is Paradigm, a group that collaborates with companies to retain and hire more diverse workers.
Meanwhile, Paradigm's main objective is to collect, determine and publish qualitative and quantitative data which oversee the rate of work force variety in companies. Joelle Emerson, CEO of Paradigm, has been working for seven months with Pinterest to advance outcomes for the company to aid shortlisting and hiring of engineers and employees, as per Bidness Etc.
In a blog post, Emerson wrote, "Paradigm is training Pinterest managers on how to write unbiased performance reviews, and we are training promotion committee members to identify potential areas of bias in promotion decisions."
