In 2020, Hispanic employees increased to 8.1% from 6%. The company had more than 8,000 full-time workers at the end of last year compared to fewer than 3,400 in 2017.
Netflix has gotten better at including women and minorities in its workforce over the past three years, outpacing its Silicon Valley peers, according to the entertainment company’s first ever report on diversity and inclusion.
In 2020 women made up 47% of its workforce compared to 40% in 2017. The company said it made similarly-sized advances to include female employees in leadership and technical positions. However, women still represent less than 35% of technical positions.
Netflix also said that at the end of 2020, 8% of its employees were black, more than double the proportion at the end of 2017. Hispanic employees increased to 8.1% from 6%, said the company, which tracks data from race and ethnicity only in the United States. Rather, your gender data is global.
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In recent years, large corporations have prioritized diversity, especially in the entertainment and technology industries, both in response to social pressure and to improve their business performance. Netflix is making shows for people in 190 countries and has promoted its content as multicultural. But to tell stories from all perspectives, you need employees who come from a wide range of backgrounds.
Tech companies have come under special scrutiny for being disproportionately male, white, and Asian. While that’s still the case for Netflix, women make up a larger proportion of its global workforce than at Facebook Inc., Apple Inc. or Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent. Netflix also has a higher percentage of black or Hispanic employees than Google or Facebook, Apple still surpasses that.
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Overall, Netflix’s employee ranks have grown in recent years driven by subscriber growth around the world and insatiable demand for content. The company, which is run from offices in Silicon Valley and Los Angeles, had more than 8,000 full-time employees in 2020, up from fewer than 3,400 in 2017.
