You can now sort company ratings by race, gender identity on Glassdoor
Job site Glassdoor now includes employee-provided company ratings and salary reports that are broken out by specific demographic groups such as race/ethnicity, gender identity, parental or caregiver status, disability, sexual orientation, and veteran status. For example, job seekers can now see and compare how Black employees at a company rate their company’s culture or career opportunities compared to white employees at that company, according to Glassdoor.
"We try to adjust and adapt Glassdoor's product over the years to the needs in the hiring marketplace. That's our business, to help people find jobs and companies that they love," said Glassdoor Chief Economist Dr. Andrew Chamberlain. He tells Yahoo Finance that the change in how the site breaks down job data has been years in the making.
"The needs of employers as they try to hire are really different today. Diversity, equity, and inclusion [DEI] are not just a fad that is coming and will disappear. It's not just a fad that showed up and will disappear again. It's here to stay. It's something that job seekers want to see. Real diversity, equity, and inclusion results by employers and employers want intelligence about how they are actually doing, and how their D&I goals are being realized and compared to their competitors."
Glassdoor has collected approximately 800,000 demographic insights from 187,000 employees at more than 3,300 companies. Data shows that Walmart (WMT), Amazon (AMZN), Target (TGT), AT&T (T), and Starbucks (SBUX) are among the companies with the most demographic information shared by employees.
The job site has spent the last few months gathering data on the Black experience at work. Its preliminary findings show that Black employees were less satisfied on average at their jobs, with a 3.3 rating compared to the 3.5 rating overall. However, Chamberlain tells Yahoo Finance that the ratings depend greatly on the company and industry.
"There is no one universal Black experience at work. It really depends on company policies. And it depends on the local culture inside organizations. So we found even within the same industry, there are very big differences between how satisfied people are at work."
Glassdoor says that it had sufficient data on 20 companies when it came to measuring the Black work experience, and the research showed that Apple has the highest overall rating among Black employees, which stands at a 4.2. Here's how the rest of the top 5 broke down: Bank of America (4.0), Capital One (3.9), Starbucks (3.9), J.P. Morgan (3.8).
“Whether you’re East Asian or South Asian, White, Black or LatinX, you’re coming into a workplace with really different cultural norms and experiences, and the insight of the diversity equity inclusion movement is that employers can do better ... if they let people be themselves at work and try to find ways to build a culture that’s inclusive and let's everyone be the most productive they can be and flourish at work and bring that cultural background with them rather than trying to force everybody into a monoculture where everybody has to talk the same and dress the same and do the same things, that’s the direction smart employers are headed and that’s what this product is designed to help them do.”
Reggie Wade is a writer for Yahoo Finance. Follow him on Twitter at @ReggieWade.
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