Corporate America Kept Its Promise to Hire More People of Color
By Margaret Sutherlin
September 26, 2023 at 9:37 AM EDT
For a brief moment in 2020, much of corporate America united around a common goal: to address the stark racial imbalances in their workplaces. Mass protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd led to a flurry of company promises, both specific and vague, to hire and promote more Black people and others from underrepresented groups. New analysis shows in the year after the protests, the biggest public companies added over 300,000 jobs — and 94% of them went to people of color.
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