Facebook Gives Another Try To Bring Diversity In Employees

The social media giant has decided to follow the Rooney Rule in order to employ workers from minorities.

Facebook has been experiencing some issues regarding not hiring employees with equality for quite some time now, something that the social media network has been looking forward to change. The staff of the firm that needs diversity is being given special attention by the company this time around. Reports that have recently been circulating the industry are talking about how the ‘Rooney Rule’ is being applied by the media giant.

The Rooney Rule was a plan carried out by the National Football League in 2003, which was launched for a similar purpose. The company was recently seen to report its plan to diversify its network of employees and not give preference to any particular race or color. A spokesperson of the social media website was seen to confirm the news in a press release.

The Rooney Rule, back in 2003, was launched in order to involve people from even in the minorities to take part in recreational activities as well. The Rule helped the minorities in a lot of ways, as they were even offered high positions of not only coaches but also designations of general manager and above. Under this rule, the number of black people receiving jobs in the football world also increased by a mile.

A similar approach is being adopted by Facebook business in order to shun down the previously increasing criticism regarding the company’s racist behavior towards minorities. To show that the firm is not racist, this step is going to be followed by the media company soon. Taking into consideration the previous few months, it will be seen that the social media network has been attempting to apply this rule in some of the departments being run in the company’s management presently.

Apart from minorities, the fact that tech giants like the media firm and more of its kind do not hire women on an equal basis has groped quite a lot of negative attention from the general public which is why this problem is also being looked after now. Many giants in the industry are now looking for ways to offer more jobs to women and minorities both at the same time, in order to give a positive reply to all the criticism.

Facebook currently has an employee base of around 10,000 people and the networking firm was seen to declare that to increase the women in its work force needs a lot of time and work. Also, the Rooney Rule is being appreciated by analysts all over the industry and it is being expected that this would soon be followed by other companies as well.