At the office, diversity works, but shorter work weeks may not
AUSTIN -- Achieving a diversified staff in a tech firm can't be done casually, but offering prospective employees a shorter work week may or may not entice them to sign up.
That was the message from two employment-related conferences at SXSW over the weekend, titled Why Diversity Can't Be Built in a Day and The End of the Work-More Culture?
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As for building diversity, "people say it should be everybody's job, but that hasn't worked — there's no explicit focus," said Abby Maldonado, diversity programs specialist at Pinterest. "There's an expertise to this work that people don't recognize." She added that managers must be held accountable for achieving inclusive hiring goals, typically by making it part of their performance reviews.
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