by MARTY JOHNSON, title via REVOLVER
Starbucks on Wednesday released an internal report of the diversity of its employees while setting a new goals for minority representation among its corporate operations.
Currently, the coffee giant’s workforce in the U.S. is nearly 70 percent women, with 47 percent of employees identifying as Black, Indigenous, and people of color.
However, the diversity of the workforce significantly declines among Starbucks’ corporate employees, just 3.7 percent of whom identified as Black and 7.4 percent identified as Latino.
The company announced that by 2025 it hopes to have 30 percent minority representation “at all corporate levels” and 40 percent “at all retail and manufacturing roles.”
“We know that a more inclusive environment will create a flywheel that leads to greater diversity, and thereby greater equity and opportunity for all,” CEO Kevin Johnson said in a statement.
“Today, we are outlining additional actions we will take on our journey. Each of the actions lines up with our Mission and Values, and so we know they are not just fleeting initiatives, but rather woven into the fabric of Starbucks,” Johnson said.
One of the actions outlined by Johnson is a mentorship program that connects minority employees with senior executives at the company. Additionally, the upper echelon of Starbucks senior management — vice president or above — will be required to complete anti-bias training. The company’s workforce diversity reports will also continue.
Nothing Starbucks does affects me in the least. They phased me out long ago.
@Deplorable Me:
Never had a chance with me. Had one of their regular coffees once an an airport. Tasted like shit. Probably the coffee greg drinks or ajward.
@July 4th American: Yeah, they have no appeal to me. Overpriced yuppie fuel.
We have a Starbucks by us that I now refer to as “A slice of San Francisco”. It’s in the burbs, nice place, but suddenly had a homeless encampment spring up on it’s grounds.
I called the police, not to report a crime, but just to have them check it out. They said it was both legal, and the Starbucks itself gave the squatters permission to be there.
Add to this the fact that every time you visit this place, an employee has all of their car windows covered in hate-filled Anti-Trump, pro-BLM screeds. Thing’s like :”Trump is a white supremacist! FULL STOP If you vote for him, you are a white supremacist. FULL STOP.”
Just last week I drove by. Two cop cars, and a fire engine pulling up. A cop was standing by a lifeless body on the ground, face down, with a prosthetic leg on the grass beside him.
Uh….I think Starbuck is about to lose a LOT of money.
@Nathan Blue: Starbucks rarely owns the buildings they operate out of, try to look up city records and see if there is a landlord this could be deemed a nuisance property, negatively impacting property values.
The law protects that right and if someone’s unreasonable use of their property interferes with your “quiet use and enjoyment” of your property, you can sue for damages, or an injunction to stop them from doing whatever it is that annoys you.
Real men dont become Baristas.
@kitt: I think there were complaints, honestly, but the way the cops responded really disheartened me. They were basically telling me I was wrong for not wanting public vagrancy in nice suburban place that I intentionally live in so my kids can have a safe and good upbringing.
Get too “woke” and go broke.
Remember the wokerati cannot do math, therefore cannot follow recipes.
And you, if you are their boss, dare not correct them!
Telling time is also a problem they must not be corrected about that either, so burnt everything and so what?!
So, goodbye all those things that Starbucks used to make in the oven.
Never been to a Starbuck’s. Never will go to a Starbuck’s. The Starbuck’s management political philosophy is far removed from mine – California liberal compared to Texas conservative.
And could someone shove a towel in Mazie Hirono’s mouth? What an idiot. What is wrong with Hawaii?
@Nathan Blue: Sue the landlord. If the bucks is a tenant not even corporate can give permission. Look it up through local tax records public information.
Used to work in their repairs call center cause the idiot kids dont know how to reset a breaker or GFCI. Spent lots of time trying to reach landlords for parking lot and landscaping issues. Fight back.
If they want to lose customers let them if you want to be a total idiot we don’t want any part of it
@Spurwing Plover: Only problem is there are children in the neighborhood, you dont know what types could be in these homeless camps. Obviously the manager is clueless.
@kitt: Essential quality in a management hire…
The company announced that by 2025 it hopes to have 30 percent minority representation. Might as well close the doors.
this is how bad the company is: in the Gulf War starf**k set up coffee stands for the troops. NO discount, full price. stopped going to starf**k many years ago. my daughter, attorney, met a friend in one of the above store in Cleveland, dirty syringes and needles on the bathroom floor. ever notice the massive increase in tv advertisement by this comp over the last months?? sbux stock fell today.
@kitt: Well, like I said, things got weird there after the police so no more homeless people….for now.