A new report from Google has revealed that little has changed despite a commitment to increasing diversity among staff employed by the tech giant.<\/p>\n
Overall nearly 70% of Google staff were men, as has been the case since 2014.<\/p>\n
In the US almost 90% were white or Asian, 2.5% were black and 3.6% Latin American.<\/p>\n
The figures also showed that black and Latin American employees had the highest attrition rate in 2017 – those choosing to leave.<\/p>\n
“….despite significant effort, and some pockets of success, we need to do more to achieve our desired diversity and inclusion outcomes,” wrote Danielle Brown, diversity vice-president,\u00a0in the report.<\/a><\/p>\n Ms Brown said the firm would increase transparency and include senior leaders in diversity-related work in order to try to drive progress.<\/p>\n Other figures from the report included:<\/p>\n Last year a former Google employee, James Damore,\u00a0was fired after writing an internal memo<\/a>\u00a0arguing there were few women in top jobs at the firm because of biological differences between men and women.<\/p>\n “We need to stop assuming that gender gaps imply sexism,” he wrote.<\/p>\n While it is the first to release figures for 2018, Google’s figures are broadly in line with other big players in the tech sector, which has long struggled to broaden the diversity of its workforce.<\/p>\n\n