Cracking The Code To A More Diverse Tech Workforce video review
The documentary video “Cracking The Code To A More Diverse Tech Workforce” presented by Karla Murthy offers critical insights on why tech companies need to diversify their workforce. Emerging reports show that the ability of the tech industry to innovate and disrupt has almost found its limits, thus calling on the need for diversification in the workplace. The situation is made evident by reports from giants of Silicon Valley like Twitter, Google, and Facebook who admit that only three to four percent of their workforce is Hispanic or black, and women are outnumbered by men by more than two to one (YouTube 2015). The documentary, therefore, highlights how tech companies are investing massive amounts of dollars trying to address the imbalance. Example of companies as presented by the video that engages in supplying funds to such programs as at 2015 include AT&T Company New York that contributed $ 100, 000 to All-Star Code, Apple Inc also spent $50 million in 2015 alone, Google invested $ 150 million. Intel invested 300 million dollars (YouTube, 2015). Such a huge investment directly reflects on the tech companies need to improve diversity.
Various industries today have realized the importance of diversity in creating an innovative environment. Discussions are also ongoing to initiate such programs in high school or colleges in a move that will various industries benefit. The financial service industry is one particular area that will benefit from such programs considering previous reports that showed the financial service industry to be one of the least diverse industries (Hunt et al., 2015). With most businesses now adopting new technology, there is a clear need for innovation. Initiating the program could also benefit the professional service industry, especially after it became apparent from emerging reports that it is the fastest growing industry, and diversity will allow better and improved operations. Such a move will technically see a higher number of women being employed in the professional services company.