Diversity training now mandatory for all Microsoft employees

Amelia Havanec • Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Diversity training now mandatory for all Microsoft employees</h1>
                <h2><p>Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is still making up for his faux pas last year, in which he said that women should not ask for raises, and instead depend on the good karma to get ahead. It used to be that only the top executives at Microsoft were required to take</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/amelia-havanec-crosscut-com/">Amelia Havanec</a></p> 
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            <p>Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is still making up for his <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/techflash/2014/10/10-influential-people-weigh-in-on-nadellas.html?ref=avalancheghost.one">faux pas</a> last year, in which he said that women should not ask for raises, and instead depend on the good karma to get ahead. It used to be that only the top executives at Microsoft were required to take a class about diversity issues. The Puget Sound Business Journal, reports that such <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/techflash/2015/06/microsoft-now-requires-diversity-training-for.html?ref=avalancheghost.one">training is now mandatory</a> for all Microsoft employees. The intention is to help identify diversity biases that individuals may unconsciously bring into the workplace -- which is currently a little more than <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/techflash/2015/01/microsoft-quietly-makes-good-on-promise-to-reveal.html?ref=avalancheghost.one">75 percent male and 61 percent white</a>, according to data from the company. Slow clap.</p>
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is still making up for his faux pas last year, in which he said that women should not ask for raises, and instead depend on the good karma to get ahead. It used to be that only the top executives at Microsoft were required to take a class about diversity issues. The Puget Sound Business Journal, reports that such training is now mandatory for all Microsoft employees. The intention is to help identify diversity biases that individuals may unconsciously bring into the workplace -- which is currently a little more than 75 percent male and 61 percent white, according to data from the company. Slow clap.

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By Amelia Havanec

Amelia Havanec is Crosscut's Science and Tech Fellow. She came to Washington from her home state of Connecticut by way of New York, Florida, California and Michigan in pursuit of the perfect pint. Sh