Google reports little progress on diversity, high black and Latino attrition

Google employees ride their Google multi-colored bicycles to and from the GooglePlex along Shorebird Way June 24, 2014 in Mountain View, Calif. Google's latest diversity report shows continued struggles in making its workplace more diverse. (Patrick Tehan/Bay Area News Group/TNS)

Google's latest diversity report, its first since the company's controversial firing of employee James Damore, shows continued struggles in its goal to make its workforce more diverse: The number of women, black and Latinx employees rose just 0.1% in the past year. 

So the tech giant is doubling down and making changes, including making diversity and inclusion a priority for the company's “most senior leaders”, Danielle Brown, chief diversity and inclusion officer, said in the report. Until now, the People Operations team had the bulk of the responsibility for the effort.