Microsoft doubles black executives by 2025…

Microsoft unveiled a letter to its employees entitled Addressing Racial Discrimination, clearly supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, and explaining its intention to provide support to black people both internally and externally.

First of all, it should be noted that by 2025, the number of senior black and African American employees, managers and executives hired in the United States will be doubled. Microsoft is investing $150 million in diversity and its efforts.

In addition, we provide human rights training and support for non-black employees to eliminate prejudice and become better colleagues. This education provides an opportunity to interact with the black community. In addition, over the next three years, cooperation with black-run suppliers will be doubled, spending $500 million each for existing and new supplies. In 2019, Microsoft says it has spent more than $2.9 billion in partnerships with disabled and veterans, LGBT-run businesses, and women-owned businesses. Other investments include a $50 million fund to support black-owned small businesses, a $100 million program to support minority-owned financial institutions, and $50 million in judicial reform initiatives.

Microsoft CEO Satia Nadella stressed that “this move is not temporary, and change begins with a commitment to acting consciously to help individuals promote change in their work.”

According to a 2019 report, blacks accounted for 4.5% of all Microsoft employees and 2.7% of black executives. In addition, 53.2% of the individual workforce is white, and 73% of all employees are male. This trend is not limited to Microsoft, and other IT companies, such as Google, are also focusing on overall diversity efforts. Related information can be found here .