Of course, all company diversity reports are not the same. That s why this paper asked more than 30 Silicon Valley companies for the official government report they prepare annually on their workforce demographics.
In a column today, I gave an update on the paper s effort: Hewlett-Packard, Nvidia, Intel and SanDisk gave us their most recent EEO-1, the name of the government report we are after.
Symantec offered up for the first time its own diversity report, with charts and donut-shaped graphics familiar to the ones recently published by Google, Facebook, Yahoo and others. (Check out our workforce diversity page, where we are keeping track of all tech firm diversity reports, as well as editorials, articles and blog posts on the issue.)
We also asked for the 2004 version of the report, which Intel gave us as well.
But a few firms diversity reports are standouts and models for everyone else.
HP s Living Progress report (see pages 58 and 65) does something most companies don t do. It provides historical data on the gender and ethnicity of the HP workforce and their roles in the company. Most companies just give a snapshot of their most recent data.
HP also offers workforce data on something people are intensely interested in, judging from my email inbox: Age data.
Cisco also offers some historical information in its Corporate Social Responsibility Report.
Nvidia s annual Workforce Performance report offers a breakdown of the workforce by age, gender and ethnicity as well as turnover by gender, region and age.
Reading these reports, you realize that the tech stars who have put out very similar reports in recent months could go much further.
Above: Google workers walk to the office. (Patrick Tehan/Bay Area News Group)
