but Chris Young, the former CEO of security company McAfee, is skeptical. As a tech executive who often found himself the only Black person on upper management teams, he's looking for hard metrics and concrete commitments alongside the platitudes.
It's "not even close to enough" to simply be posting support for Black Lives Matter on social media: "Where I'm skeptical of organizations is when that's all they do, and then they go back to business without following up," Young said. as the chief executive of McAfee — a $3 billion, 7,000-employee company — in January, though he remains an advisor, and is still on the boards of Snap and American Express.
Young says companies need to think about how to help people of color "feel they can be successful" in leadership roles, but that those plans need to be paired with hard metrics and specific goals, such as increasing minority hiring and promotions by a certain percent each year. McAfee's workforce is 57% white, 23% Asian, 8% Latinx, 6% Black, and less than half a percent Pacific Islander and Native American, though, last year, 54% of new hires were racial minorities. While many tech companies have started publicly releasing their yearly diversity statistics, they oftenfrom one year to the next. That's where Young's recommendation for accountability comes in: There should be consequences for failure.
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