In the present day, I’m sharing Microsoft’s 2024 Variety & Inclusion Report, our most world and clear report back to date. This marks our sixth consecutive annual report and the eleventh 12 months sharing our world workforce information, highlighting our progress and areas of alternative.
Our ongoing give attention to range and inclusion is instantly tied to our inherently inclusive mission — to empower each particular person and each group on the planet to realize extra, enabling us to innovate within the period of AI. As we strategy our firm’s fiftieth anniversary, we stay deeply dedicated to D&I as a result of it’s what creates transformational options to essentially the most complicated challenges for patrons, companions and the world.
Key information
We collect a spread of knowledge, which is offered in particular methods all through the report. Within the following part, you will need to perceive the excellence between our *Broader Microsoft enterprise and our **Core Microsoft enterprise.
New and expanded information
- Datacenters: As we lead the AI platform shift, our workforce continues to develop to incorporate workers with diverse backgrounds and roles, and we’re sharing new information this 12 months on a rising worker inhabitants in datacenter roles. The inhabitants of datacenter workers grew 23.9% globally and 28.9% within the US in 2024, greater than tripling since 2020.
- In our most world report back to date, we expanded new world Self-ID information to incorporate Indigenous and navy workers, in addition to these with disabilities. For instance, 5.7% of world workers in our core Microsoft enterprise self-identified as having a incapacity, a rise of 0.2 share factors 12 months over 12 months.
- We proceed to have pay fairness. For median unadjusted pay evaluation, the info reveals we now have made progress in narrowing the gaps. This 12 months we expanded pay fairness evaluation and median unadjusted pay evaluation to not solely embody girls inside and outdoors the US, but in addition embody a mixed view of ladies globally. Rising illustration for ladies and racial and ethnic minority teams at extra senior ranges, mixed with sustaining pay fairness for all, will proceed to scale back the median unadjusted pay hole.
Illustration
- Illustration of ladies in our core Microsoft workforce is 31.6%, a rise of 0.4 share factors 12 months over 12 months. Moreover, the illustration of ladies in technical roles is 27.2%, a rise of 0.5 share factors 12 months over 12 months.
- Illustration of ladies in our core Microsoft workforce rose 12 months over 12 months in any respect management ranges besides Govt.
- Management illustration in our core Microsoft workforce of Black and African American workers on the Companion + Govt degree grew to 4.3%, a rise of 0.5 share factors 12 months over 12 months. Management illustration in our core Microsoft workforce of Hispanic and Latinx workers on the Govt degree rose to 4.6%, a rise of 0.8 share factors 12 months over 12 months.
- In our broader Microsoft workforce, illustration of racial and ethnic minority teams is 53.9%, a rise of 0.6 share factors 12 months over 12 months.
Tradition and inclusion in focus
Worker sentiment and engagement
- Our semi-annual Worker Alerts survey focuses on worker expertise and helps us deepen our understanding so we are able to modify our efforts the place wanted. These insights present that workers proceed to really feel like they’re thriving, with a world and US rating of 76. Inside Worker Alerts, we give attention to thriving, which we outline as “being energized and empowered to do significant work.” That is designed to measure workers’ sense of objective, which is vital to private {and professional} achievement. We survey workers on three dimensions of thriving: Feeling energized, feeling empowered and doing significant work.
- Our Day by day Alerts survey outcomes point out worker perceptions round Microsoft’s dedication to making a extra numerous and inclusive office elevated two factors 12 months over 12 months to a mean rating of 79.
- Since introducing the idea of allyship to workers in 2018, we now have impressed and led a constructive influence on our tradition. As of June 2024, 95.6% of workers reported some degree of consciousness of the idea of allyship, up from 65.0% in 2019 once we first began asking workers about their consciousness.
A dedication that spans many years
Our annual D&I report not solely critiques our information, but in addition illuminates the intentional technique and actions which have helped us make progress throughout our firm’s journey.
Examples embody:
- Being one of many first Fortune 500 firms to develop antidiscrimination coverage and advantages to LGBTQIA+ workers in 1989.
- Asserting our Racial Fairness Initiative in June 2020, outlining actions and progress we anticipate to make by 2025 to assist tackle racial injustice and inequity within the US for Black and African American communities.
- Launching immersive D&I studying simulations in 2021, permitting workers to follow essential D&I expertise, similar to recognizing and addressing bias, responding to microaggressions and demonstrating efficient allyship.
- Constructing on greater than a decade of serving to to reskill navy service members by way of our Microsoft Software program and Programs Academy (MSSA), and this 12 months increasing this skilling alternative to coach navy spouses for moveable, in-demand IT roles.
- Introducing pronouns and self-expression options in Microsoft 365, an innovation introduced on to fruition as a result of we listened to, and collaborated with, prospects, companions and workers who requested for these options.
A mission as daring as ours
At Microsoft, we’re guided by our mission, worldview and tradition. Our mission is the why; it drives our actions. Our worldview is the what, shaping our technique and merchandise. Tradition is the how, influencing all the things with a give attention to development and innovation. Tradition can be the who: Who makes up the workforce, who companies our prospects, who innovates the way forward for tech. The range of the workforce, mixed with inclusion, unlocks particular person and collective potential. That is what is important to remain related, compete at scale and win.
Each particular person. Each group. On daily basis. In all places.
Right here’s to creating progress for the subsequent 50 years.
Lindsay-Rae
Notes
* Broader Microsoft enterprise: Contains the core Microsoft enterprise, plus minimally built-in firms. Staff of joint ventures and newly acquired firms are usually not included within the information, together with Activision, Blizzard, and King. LinkedIn was acquired in December 2016, GitHub was acquired in June 2018, and Activision, Blizzard, and King have been acquired in October 2023. We offer standalone information for these three acquisitions. Nuance Communications was acquired in March 2022 and totally built-in in August 2023.
**Core Microsoft enterprise: Represents 88.4% of the worldwide broader Microsoft workforce.