LinkedIn CEO apologizes after an internal meeting about racial inequality and bias was hit with 'appalling' comments from anonymous employees
Courtesy of Ryan Roslansky- LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky apologized on Thursday after employees anonymously made "appalling" comments criticising the company's efforts to diversify its workforce during a global town hall meeting to discuss racial inequity and biases earlier this week.
- Roslansky, who only started as CEO of the Microsoft-owned social network on Monday, apologized for allowing the comments."We are not and will not be a company or platform where racism or hateful speech is allowed," he said.
- Other LinkedIn staffers were outraged, according to the Daily Beast, and called the comments "disturbing and racist."
- The company will no longer allow anonymous comments at such meetings. LinkedIn declined to comment beyond Roslansky's public email to employees.
- LinkedIn released a report last year showing just 3.5 percent of its workforce was Black.
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"We are not and will not be a company or platform where racism or hateful speech is allowed," he said.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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