"I used to work in a huge tech organisation, and it was an unspoken truth that our London office didn’t look the city we were working in. London is a brilliantly diverse city - with people from all around the world. But if you stepped inside the doors to our office it was exclusively white & middle class."
Hi Bruce, I worked for the same huge tech organisation in London at the same time you worked there. Remember when a rather naïve engineer ran a poll on uk-misc about people's voting intentions for the upcoming General Election? I'm pretty sure this would have been in 2010. Before HR pulled the plug on that silly idea, our colleagues had voted nearly 70% for the Tories. Brilliant, diverse London gave 36 seats to Labour and 28 to the Tories that year.
(I think you’re agreeing me) yes that would sound right. You’d have to strive to hire such an unrepresentative sample of Londoners (and of course they’ve dropped some of the academic demands now).
I've felt so low this week off of the back of all of this. We were just starting to make progress. I just hope that the majority of companies keep on with their DEI work. I looked into leaving Facebook at least, but the groups features are just too damned good, and unmatched when I tried to find similar communities on Reddit. I think, just like when I left Twitter as a user, there will be a breaking point where I give up the communities to do the right thing.
Good on you Bruce for calling out Zuckerberg for being a liar. Its kinda astonishing to see how he is suddenly jettisoned a whole load of ideas that just a few months ago (pre a Trump election win) were important to him. Not sure which side of him to believe in. He seems to have some supporters though. You don't need to know how to capitalise on your own identity to not be a jerk.
I’m against meetings more than the next man. But asking yourself if you could overcome bias against candidates who aren’t white men can definitely be a good email.
Thanks for a very well-articulated article on this. I couldn't agree more.
The EY thing isn’t isolated Capgemini folks do it too. I suspect it is very common, expected and condoned
"I used to work in a huge tech organisation, and it was an unspoken truth that our London office didn’t look the city we were working in. London is a brilliantly diverse city - with people from all around the world. But if you stepped inside the doors to our office it was exclusively white & middle class."
Hi Bruce, I worked for the same huge tech organisation in London at the same time you worked there. Remember when a rather naïve engineer ran a poll on uk-misc about people's voting intentions for the upcoming General Election? I'm pretty sure this would have been in 2010. Before HR pulled the plug on that silly idea, our colleagues had voted nearly 70% for the Tories. Brilliant, diverse London gave 36 seats to Labour and 28 to the Tories that year.
(I think you’re agreeing me) yes that would sound right. You’d have to strive to hire such an unrepresentative sample of Londoners (and of course they’ve dropped some of the academic demands now).
Yes, I'm agreeing with you, the brilliant, diverse London was not sarcastic.
I've felt so low this week off of the back of all of this. We were just starting to make progress. I just hope that the majority of companies keep on with their DEI work. I looked into leaving Facebook at least, but the groups features are just too damned good, and unmatched when I tried to find similar communities on Reddit. I think, just like when I left Twitter as a user, there will be a breaking point where I give up the communities to do the right thing.
Good on you Bruce for calling out Zuckerberg for being a liar. Its kinda astonishing to see how he is suddenly jettisoned a whole load of ideas that just a few months ago (pre a Trump election win) were important to him. Not sure which side of him to believe in. He seems to have some supporters though. You don't need to know how to capitalise on your own identity to not be a jerk.
Greatest day ever for work. Who wants to sit through those stupid HR circle jerk meetings
I’m against meetings more than the next man. But asking yourself if you could overcome bias against candidates who aren’t white men can definitely be a good email.