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LinkedIn makes slight progress on diversity

Jessica Guynn
USA TODAY
n this Nov. 6, 2014 photo, a LinkedIn employee walks past a company logo at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.

SAN FRANCISCO — Change is coming very slowly to LinkedIn which over the past year only slightly increased the number of women and made no headway in increasing the number of underrepresented minorities at the professional networking company.

The Mountain View, Calif., company is still dominated by men, according to work force demographics released Tuesday. Nearly six out of 10 employees at LinkedIn — or 58% — are men, but that is an improvement from 61% last year.

Women also made some progress in the company leadership, holding 30% of those positions, a 5% increase from 2014.

In technical roles, women saw a 1% increase. In non-tech roles, LinkedIn had gender parity with 50% of those positions held by women.

But LinkedIn did not see any improvement in the small percentage of underrepresented minorities. In the U.S., 2% of LinkedIn employees are African American and 4% are Hispanic.

Among technical workers in the US., 1% are African American and 3% are Hispanic, same as last year.

In non-tech roles, the number of Hispanics slipped to 4% from 5% a year ago. African Americans still hold 3% of those positions.

African Americans hold 1% and Hispanics 4% of leadership positions at LinkedIn, same as in 2014.

A year ago with mounting pressure from civil rights leaders, Google decided to publicly divulge the demographics of its work force and pledged to address the gender and racial imbalance. Since then companies from Apple to Facebook have followed suit.

Sandy Hoffman, LinkedIn's head of global inclusion, said in a blog post that the company's latest numbers "show encouraging results."

"Our numbers also show where we still have room for much more progress, so we need to be relentless in our efforts," she continued.

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