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Target plans to increase the diversity of its workforce, pledging to grow its percentage of Black employees by 20% over the next three years.
The retailer announced the goal with plans to create programs to advance and retain staff Thursday. It also released a workforce diversity report, a detailed racial and gender breakdown of the company across all levels.
"We are really committed to building a team that represents our guests, that increases advancement opportunities and also reduces turnover for our team members of color,” Melissa Kremer, Target chief human resources officer, told USA TODAY.
I worked in education for 20 years. I could give you names, dates and places where minority candidates were given positions over more qualified non-minority candidates. Those kind of hires always had a negative effect on the departments where these employees worked.
What about white people from disadvantaged backgrounds who need jobs at Target, as well? They will be the ones to pay the cost of Target’s racist hiring policy.
Reaffirms my decision several years ago never to set foot in target again. If they want to use their business to promote leftism then let the Woke shop there.
White people should reduce their spending at Target by at least 20% as a result.
In all seriousness, all white people who are not afflicted with the mental illness of "white guilt" should just stop shopping from Target.
If they want to virtue signal or play SJW fine, but they are not going to do it with my money in their pocket.
There will be some grumbling. Realistically though this is not going to be a policy that will have an obvious significant impact.
Retail outlets have constant changes in employment. I suspect folks won't even notice.
Target does seem to hire disadvantaged individuals. My son started working their part time while planning for and seeking out his career path. He needed a car and needed a job to make some money. We live in an area with a high cost of housing/living. People drive from an hour away (no real traffic like a big city), to work there and a number of the staff are folks who struggle with some kind of mental health issues/disadvantages.....financial, health, mental.
I know of other 'woke' companies that have really worked at being more diversified but haven't met their targets. Part of the problem is the demographics of the locations they are in. A software company in a large diverse city, expanded to a less diverse city and they can't find the people to fill the targets. You have to be realistic.
So some Targets around the US may not see any real difference based on the pool of labor in their community. And in communities where there is that diversity, perhaps it would be a good thing to up the diversity a bit.
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