Cesar Conde, chairman at NBCUniversal News Group, announced a groundbreaking goal to have a 50% diverse workforce at NBCUniversal, according to Deadline. Conde, the first Latino in this role, outlined his plans in an internal video for employees on Wednesday.
The ultimate goal is for NBCUniversal, No. 7 on Fair360, formerly DiversityInc’s 2020 Top 50 Companies for Diversity List, to have 50% women and 50% total nonwhite employees. The corporation’s progress will be reported annually and increasing diversity will be part of leadership’s performance metrics in 2021, which is tied to their compensation.
According to Conde, NBC News, MSNBC and CNBC is 26.5% diverse with 8% of employees being Black, 8% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 2% multi-racial and less than 1% Native American. The workforce is already nearly 50% women.