Penguin Random House released its annual workforce demographics report, with the numbers showing modest improvement in diversity over last year. While the majority of employees both in non-warehouse and warehouse and jobs remain white — 74 percent, and 75 percent respectively — BIPOC employees accounted for 52 percent of new hires, up from 43 percent in 2020. Asian workers accounted for 17 percent of new hires (up from 9.9 percent); Hispanic workers accounted for 14 percent (up from 11.3 percent); and Black workers accounted for 15.9 percent (up from 13.9 percent ). Bi/Multi-racial hires fell from 7.9 to 4.8 percent. […]
