Cable Lags Telco In Workforce Diversity Efforts: NAMIC Study

The cable industry has made gains in minority employment over the past two years, but some of its numbers fall well short of its telco competitors, according to a new National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications survey. Cable's overall representation of African-Americans, Hispanics and Asian-Americans rose to 30% from 28% since NAMIC's last survey in 2006. But that falls short of diversity statistics from the top telco companies -- AT&T, Sprint and Verizon Communications -- which report a 36% diversity rate among their collective employees according to the survey, which was developed in conjunction with DiversityInc magazine. Each year that magazine compiled its own top-50 list of companies committed to diversifying their employment and supplier ranks. Cable's minority workforce compares favorably with that of the DiversityInc Top 50 list.