After a summer of racial protests sparked in part by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, many corporations are re-examining diversity goals and workplace structures that have made it harder for minorities and women to land jobs and earn promotions, including Amazon. — Seattle Times/TNS
Mahammud Hirsi was a hard-driving young manager at Amazon.com when he and a half dozen other Somali supervisors started a monthly lunch meeting three years ago and invited some top managers to join them.
Hirsi had been part of an effort to establish prayer rooms and breaks for Amazon’s growing ranks of Muslim immigrant workers in the Twin Cities, and considered himself something of a cultural ambassador. But what he and his East African lunchmates wanted was an open channel to human resources managers and other senior leaders who could help them break out of lower-tier management roles and bring more diversity to the top.
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