Twitter to increase diversity in workforce


Twitter made its list of diversity goals public through its official blog on Friday. The website aims to have given employment to overall 35% women and 11% under-represented minorities by 2016. Interestingly Twitter already has 34% woman staff and would reportedly require to recruit at least 41 female employees worldwide to meet its gender goal.

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