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9 Faces of HR Book Update: Is Salesforce Making Progress on Diversity Since Hiring a Chief Equality Officer?

One of the cool things about writing a book that does at least reasonably well is you start to get questions flowing in about the content you included. When I wrote The 9 Faces of HR, I alternated for a good bit of the book between serious chapter and a more pithy, fun "bonus chapter" (but let's face it, I had a lot of fun and took plenty of liberties in the "serious" chapters as well).

I'm going to start sharing my responses to some of the questions I get in my inbox and on LinkedIn. Here's one about my references to Salesforce in one of the bonus chapters of The 9 Faces of HR.

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Hi Kris -

I just finished reading your book and I do believe it will help me raise my awareness of my own profile and my peers. Since 2016, are you aware if Salesforce actually improved in terms of diversity in the aftermaths of naming a "Chief Equality Officer"?

Thanks, Jenny

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(Note - if you don't have my book, there's a bonus chapter on Salesforce naming a "Chief Equality Officer" as a strategy to take credit for what they do well, in an effort to take the focus off of broad diversity reporting in Silicon Valley that always looks horrid).

Hi Jenny -

Thanks for dropping the note and reading my book. The year by year numbers are hard to find - but you can find the Salesforce and Google diversity numbers in the links below for the last reporting period.  See the links below (email subscribers click through for charts/images if you don't see them below) and go about halfway down ("see where we are today" for SF, "workforce representation" for Google) to compare.  Salesforce remains whiter and heavier in male representation than Google, with the increased diversity at Google being all from the Asian/Indian category.  Shows how hard it is to make progress in the talent pools in tech and in the bay area, I think.  Links and graphics below:

For Salesforce:

https://www.salesforce.com/company/equality/#eq-sf-data

SF

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