Uber employees identifying as Asian make up 30.9 percent of the ride-hailing company’s U.S. workforce and hold 47.9 percent of technical roles. Meanwhile, black employees make up 8.8 percent of the U.S. workforce and just 1 percent of technical roles. According to the data, nearly 50 percent of the company’s U.S. workforce and 46.2 percent of employees in technical roles identify as white. In January, civil rights leader Jesse Jackson penned a letter to Uber chief executive Travis Kalanick urging him to release employee data. At Google, women make up 31 percent of the global workforce and 19 percent of technical roles.

Source: Washington Post March 28, 2017 17:47 UTC