On June 23, Microsoft announced it would commit $150 million over five years to increase the diversity of its staff and invest in community education programs, including doubling the number of Black people in leadership positions at the company by 2025.
Microsoft received a letter from the Labor Department that allegedly read that the initiative"appears to imply that employment action may be taken on the basis of race."
"Emphatically, they are not," Microsoft Corporate Vice President and General Counsel Dev Stahlkopf wrote in the blog post. Stahlkopf said the company knows"full well how to appropriately create opportunities for people without taking away opportunities from others," and said it's prepared to defend its approach.
Some of the other initiatives Microsoft will be instituting include investing in early STEM education in elementary through secondary school, expanding its recruitment net at colleges and universities and opening locations in places like Charlotte, N.C. and Atlanta."We know that as a company and a country we have more work to do to expand opportunity," the blog post reads.
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