O'Keefe reports that the company's overall technical population, including engineering, CS and IT, is more than a third women. This program, says O'Keefe, has been directly involved with 22 percent of all minorities who have earned PhDs in EE nationwide in the past 20 years. Many of the company's business units recruit at historically black colleges and universities and Hispanic-serving institutions, and at professional conferences for women and minorities. The idea of the fund is to increase the supply and improve the quality of community-based childcare and eldercare services. Instead, the company supports childcare and eldercare through grants to community-based care centers used by employees.
Flexible hours are another available perk, subject to business needs and union contracts.
They include personal days that can be taken in two-hour increments. Job sharing, part-time work and compressed work schedules are available on a similar basis. Then we work to ensure that there is full and fair representation and participation.