Study: 94% of corporate jobs went to non-whites
Corporate America said it would, and kept its pledge
Major U.S. corporations are now in a race to hire people of color, sidelining white candidates.
In the wake of George Floyd, corporations said it was coming, and now we're seeing it unfold.
A Resume Builder survey in 2022 saw it first: 52% of hiring managers confessed their companies were practicing reverse discrimination. One in six said they were asked to “deprioritize” the hiring of white men and 48% of them said they had passed on qualified candidates because they weren’t “diverse” enough.
Now? An in-depth analysis by Bloomberg looked at 88 companies on the S&P 100, the leading large corporations in the country. Those companies added more than 300,000 jobs in the year after the Black Lives Matter protests, and 94% of those jobs went to people of color. A little over 20,000 of the people who were hired were white.
A lot of the hiring was in lower-level jobs, but executive suites saw more non-whites as well. Whites still dominate senior management spots, but more than half of the new executive jobs went to people of color.
Our culture’s done a full 180: from the Jim Crow era, where race-based hiring was the norm, to outright rejecting it. And now? We're back at square one, only the tables have turned.
There are a few things to keep in mind when looking at these numbers. We only have data through 2021. Retirements had gone up in 2021, and older employees are more likely to be white, which could be a factor. Could this trend be tapering off post-2021? With layoffs hitting the headlines and DEI departments under the microscope, it’s a real possibility.
Some will cheer, claiming it’s making up for years of discrimination, and bringing corporate minority employment ratios up to where they belong.
The problem lies not in the result, but the blatant racism in hiring practices. Snubbing qualified candidates based on skin color? That’s not just morally bankrupt – it’s a ticking time bomb, primed for backlash. Let’s just hope that backlash doesn’t go overboard as well.
— Ken
The problem is not even just that it's racist, the problem is that the output of these companies, by definition, will suffer as a result of not staffing with the most qualified people.
Most agree employees should be hired based upon their qualifications. It should have always been that way but, obviously wasn’t. Preferential hiring of non-whites is discrimination against whites. When does one wrong right another? When it’s orchestrated by liberals. Companies are now looking at a more diverse employee base albeit, a less qualified group, according to the hiring managers mentioned in your article.