Team communication startup Slack just released its diversity data, becoming the fourth Unicorn startup after Airbnb, Dropbox and Pinterest to do so.
Here are the stats around the racial and ethnic identity of Slack’s employees: 70% “Non-Hispanic Caucasian” aka white, 4% African-American, 19% Asian and 7% “Mixed-Race/Other.” Meanwhile, women make up 39% of Slack’s employees, with 18% of them in engineering roles. Another fun fact: 10.3% of Slack’s employees identify as being part of the LGBTQ community.
What really stands out is the fact that Slack has a higher percentage of African-Americans in engineering than it does company-wide. The same cannot be said for other Unicorn startups: Airbnb’s staff is 3% black, and drops to 1% when just looking at technology jobs. Dropbox’s staff is 1% black, with just .30% of its tech jobs held by black people. Over at Pinterest, its workforce is 1% black, and drops to less than 1% when only taking into account engineering jobs.
And regarding people of diverse backgrounds in leadership roles, Slack notes that 41% of its employees have a female manager “who help set their priorities, measure their performance, mentor them in their work, and who make recommendations that will impact their compensation and career growth.”
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Slack’s doing a variety of things to foster diversity, like working with experts to build fair and inclusive processes and being cognizant of decisions around hiring and promotions, Slack VP of People & Policy Anne Toth and CEO Stewart Butterfield wrote on the Slack blog.
“Perhaps the single most important thing we are doing right now is addressing this issue in the infancy of our organizational history,” Toth and Butterfield wrote. “Slack has fewer than 250 employees worldwide today and our product has existed in the market for less than two years. We began reviewing our workplace policies with an outside diversity consultant when we had only 75 employees on our books.”
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