Lenovo has announced that it has achieved its three-year gender and race/ethnicity workforce representation targets.
Its Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Report has revealed a worldwide rise in both female and minority executive representation. The company’s third annual D&I report provides an annual snapshot of workforce demographics, hiring and attrition data, as well as a recap of the diversity and inclusion highlights for the past year.
First established in its inaugural report in 2018, Lenovo’s representational commitments featured a goal of achieving 20% female executive representation worldwide and 28% racial/ethnic minority executive representation in the US. The company has reported exceeding those targets, achieving representation of 21% and 29%, respectively. Other highlights include the addition of three new employee resource groups, greater support for disability inclusion, and the company’s first Product Diversity Office.
REPRESENTATION TARGETS
Since Lenovo first began reporting its workforce representation three years ago, the company has experienced progress in several key areas. For example, the representation of women within executive roles worldwide grew from 18.5% to 21%. The representation of women within the overall workforce globally, however, remained unchanged at 36% as in 2019. That said, the representation of global female executives has grown three percentage points since first announcing the company’s three-year goal of 20% in 2018.
In terms of race and ethnicity in Lenovo’s US workforce, the representation of non-White racial and ethnic groups grew to 34% – an increase of just over one percentage point since 2019. Non-White racial and ethnic representation in the executive ranks has also increased to 29% – up from 27.4% in 2019.
In fact, since announcing the three-year goal of 28%, back in 2018, the representation of US, non-White racial and ethnic executives has actually grown 2.5 percentage points. Approximately, 10.7% of non-White racial and ethnic executives are Black/African-American or Hispanic/Latinx, according to Lenovo’s latest report. The representation of Black or African-American employees in the overall workforce, remained unchanged from last year at 8%. However, executive representation for Black and African-American employees, dipped slightly, from 2019 at 3.2% – a decrease of 0.2 percentage points.
The representation of Hispanic or Latinx employees in the overall workforce grew to 5.9%, an increase of 0.2 percentage points from 2019. Hispanic and Latinx employees in executive ranks, however, grew more significantly from 2019 at 7.5% – an increase of 1.4 percentage points, confirmed the report.
NEW CHIEF DIVERSITY OFFICER
Lenovo also announced the promotion of Calvin Crosslin to Chief Diversity Officer. The former Executive Director responsible for Human Resources in Lenovo’s Data Center Group succeeds Yolanda Lee Conyers as Chief Diversity Officer and President of the Lenovo Foundation. Read more here.
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