#GAReads | How Slack Got Ahead in Diversity
"How Slack Got Ahead in Diversity":
Last week, Slack, the company whose popular, plaid-themed messaging app has simplified office communications and introduced custom fox emoji into our daily routines, quietly released its 2017 diversity report. Diversity reports, which list statistics like the percentage of women in management and underrepresented minorities in technical jobs, have become something of an annual rite of passage among Silicon Valley tech companies. As public concern about gender and racial inequities in tech has grown, companies have begun, over the past several years, to share numbers.
Slack has been outperforming other Silicon Valley companies, and its current numbers show that the trend has continued.