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Tag: diversity
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How to Prepare for a Blended Workforce
What is a blended workforce, and how can companies prepare for it? Should a blended workforce be embraced, or avoided?
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It's Time to Change Our Thinking About Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
Diversity and inclusion efforts tend to be measured at the macro level — without ensuring each team within a company is diverse.
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DevOps and the Culture of Inclusion
DevOps enables teams to deliver quality software faster and more efficiently, but more importantly, it fundamentally changes the culture of an organization.
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How to Build a Company Worthy of the Next Generation
We have four years to transform companies into ones that are deserving of generation Z.
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How to Create Better Employee Experiences for Workers with Disabilities
Companies need to provide inclusive, accessible opportunities for workers with disabilities.
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What Real-Time Collaboration Data Can Tell Us About Gender Diversity
Studies of social interactions in the workplace did not reveal evidence of gender bias. Further research involving sentiment analysis may be needed.
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SVAcademy Counters Tech's Diversity Problem with Education and Mentorship
The tech industry suffers from a longstanding misconception that it is a meritocracy, where only hard work and the best ideas are rewarded regardless of gender, race or socioeconomic status.
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Addressing Gender Bias in the Workplace: A New Approach
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg once said, “The world has gone social. And women are more social than men.” This isn't merely Sandberg's opinion. Sandberg has access to copious Facebook data to back up her claims.
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Empowering Women, Advancing AI & Much More at Dreamforce '16
SAN FRANCISCO – Melinda Gates made an interesting cultural observation about subtle bias against women during a fireside chat at Salesforce's user conference here last week. Why, wondered the co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, are the default voices for popular digital assistants like Siri, Alexa and
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Twitter Invests in Machine Learning, SAP Embraces Diversity, More
Twitter is investing in machine learning with the $150 million acquisition of Magic Pony Technology, a London-based firm that developed machine learning techniques for visual processing. Calling machine learning "the core of everything we build at Twitter,” CEO Jack Dorsey blogged that the buy builds on other investments his company
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One Man's Commitment to Diversity in Technology
Your dad should have a gun because he’s black. A first-grade girl said that to Anjuan Simmons’ daughter when she showed her classmate her family drawing, a class assignment. Simmons is a Houston-area agile project manager for a construction software company.
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What You Need to Know About Tech Jobs and What They Pay
There are 6,513,236 tech industry jobs in the US, provided by some 452,303 companies. The tech industry's payroll is a nice $654 billion, with the average wage clocking in at $100,355, compared to a $49,611 average private sector wage overall.
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How One Female Web Technologist Broke Barriers in Tech
Martha Elliott remembered walking into the office to interview for a web designer position when she was 40-years-old. “The interviewer,” Elliott recalled, “looked puzzled and said, ‘I'm sorry we're not looking for receptionists at this time. We're looking for a web designer.
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Companies Desperately Seeking IT Talent
It would be a simple matter, it would seem, to hire a senior developer with Microsoft Dynamics skills. Yet, Kelly Bedrich, the director of IT for the non-profit firm APQC (the American Productivity and Quality Center), has been having difficulties filing the position. He has his theories.
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