Acceptance of remote work has led to a more diverse workforce at Meta, according to the company’s 2022 Diversity Report, which was released Tuesday.
Chief diversity officer Maxine Williams said in a Newsroom post that the pandemic resulted in the company hiring people who are fully remote and working in locations where Meta does not have offices for the first time, adding that approximately 75% of teams at Meta are working across multiple locations.
She said that over the past year, candidates in the U.S. who accepted remote job offers were “substantially more likely” to be Black, Hispanic, Native American, Alaskan Native, Pacific Islander, veterans and/or people with disabilities, and worldwide, candidates who accepted remote job offers were more likely to be women.
