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DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

Best Buy | December 17, 2020

Best Buy will commit more than $44 million over a five-year time span to achieve a set of diversity, inclusion and representation objectives by 2025, the organization reported Dec. 9. Among other objectives, Best Buy is looking for a more diverse employee base; the organization said it tries to fill 1 out of 3 new, non-hourly corporate positions with candidates who are Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC). Moreover, it intends to fill 1 of every 3 new, non-hourly field fu...

Melinda Gates | January 30, 2020

Pivotal Ventures, along Break Through Tech, SecondMuse, and "several leading social organizations," announced Jan. 28 a new city-based initiative to bring more women into tech. Melinda Gates' company Pivotal Ventures invested $50 million in Gender Equality in Tech Cities to engage women as college students, employees and founders and investors in city-based tech hubs nationwide. The initiative's goal is to speed up gender equality in the tech sphere by maximizing "the impa...

ZoomInfo | May 18, 2020

LayOffers, LLC., announced that it has teamed up with ZoomInfo, the global leader in go-to-market (GTM) intelligence solutions, to help displaced workers return to the workforce. ZoomInfo has provided contact data for nearly 370,000 recruiters to aid LayOff...

HR STRATEGY

Globalization Partners | January 25, 2022

On January 24, premier global employment, Globalization Partners announced that it raised $200 million in investment from Visa Credit Partners (VCP). VCP is a subsidiary of Visa Equity Partners. Following the investment, Globalization Partners is now valued at $4.2 billion. Globalization Partners is a platform that specializes in enabling companies to build a remote workforce. The company has an annual recurring revenue of approximately $1 billion. It plans to use the investment to expand...