{"id":57830,"date":"2018-05-03T15:54:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T19:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/?p=57830"},"modified":"2023-04-01T18:01:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T18:01:56","slug":"slack-leads-diversity-in-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/slack-leads-diversity-in-silicon-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"SLACK LEADS DIVERSITY IN SILICON VALLEY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you&#8217;ve been under a rock (smile), the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellvyl.com\">Wellvyl<\/a> ethos is built with and for diversity. When we say &#8220;Wellness to the people,&#8221; we mean ALL people. We talk it like we walk it, from our fruit punch of a staff to our event producers. It&#8217;s why the <a href=\"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/wellvyl-manifesto\/\">Wellvyl<\/a> staff communicates primarily through Slack. In the tech space, there are few companies which talk and walk diversity more than this fairly new messaging app.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to Google, Facebook, and Microsoft&#8217;s percentage of women in leadership roles, Slack averages an estimated 10% higher. In fact, female employees make up a third of Slack&#8217;s leadership an technical roles, and in regards to minority hiring, in some cases, triple their competitors.<\/p>\n<p>These numbers are not by accident. Since Slack&#8217;s inception (2014), the company has made a concerted effort to build a company with inclusion. Their recruitment process is a wonderful read. One highlight is their search for keywords. While Amazon&#8217;s search hones in more males with words like &#8220;competing,&#8221; Slack allows for more female acceptance with words like &#8220;lasting relationships.&#8221; Sound familiar?<\/p>\n<p>Read for yourself at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2018\/04\/how-slack-got-ahead-in-diversity\/558806\/?utm_source=pocket&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=pockethits\">The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you&#8217;ve been under a rock (smile), the Wellvyl ethos is built with and for diversity. When we say &#8220;Wellness to the people,&#8221; we mean ALL people. We talk it like we walk it, from our fruit punch of a staff to our event&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":57864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57830"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69611,"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57830\/revisions\/69611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}