Microsoft salary data leaked for over 1,200 employees in email thread alleging discrimination

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

An email group within Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) is sharing claims of discrimination and revealing compensation data in an effort to bring more transparency about pay equity, according to an email chain leaked to Business Insider.

The email chain contained claims from dozens of women about being ignored during meetings or not invited to them, men taking credit for ideas and a perceived lack of interest from human resources departments, Business Insider reported. A spreadsheet within the chain contained the salaries of over 1,200 Microsoft employees. The company employs over 180,000 people, including nearly 58,000 in Washington state.

The data provided didn't show much evidence of gendered gaps in promotion opportunities for the 1,200 employees involved, but the thread highlighted a diversity problem within Microsoft. About 20% of partners and executives within the company were women as of June 2020, according to Microsoft. That's up 5.8 percentage points from 2016.

And at the director and executive levels, Microsoft's diversity data says over 66% of employees are white.

https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2021/10/13/microsoft-salary-data-gender-discrimination.html

[Ron Obvious]

1. When I worked there, sharing your salary with anyone was a firing offence.

That never sat right with me, although it's apparently common enough in the industry.

Something to be said for the official wage scales that are the norm in some European countries.