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Straight white males are the only “non-diverse” demographic. So they aren’t mentioned specifically in diversity quotas, of course. But if you hire too many of them, you can kiss some part of your bonus goodbye on account of not meeting quotas. How this is legal IDK



> But if you hire too many of them, you can kiss some part of your bonus goodbye on account of not meeting quotas. How this is legal IDK

Because you’re literally pulling that out of your ass. Even the article you link never mentions that and mentions multiple times that there was no such thing.


Straight from the horses mouth, some 8 years ago: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/11/17/global-diversity...

Quote: “Tying senior leaders’ compensation to diversity gains in their respective organizations.”




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