I work on the 4th Floor in the Pittsburgh office and I'm the only African American on the floor and in my Group. Are the New York Offices more diverse, specifically in recruiting and retaining African Americans. The 11 years I've been at BNY Mellon our Group has hired 2 African Americans. Again, my question is.. is the New York like that in regard to the African American demographic? Also, I may be incorrect, but there is not one minority, not just African Americans, on the Board of Directors. Charlie Scharf, or whoever, recently appointed Steven D. Black (JP Morgan) to the board of directors. Charlie Scharf, chairman of the BNY Mellon board of directors, has yet recruited any minorities to the Board. What was Charlie Scharf's purpose in brining Lester Owens. Just for presentation reasons?
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How many people on your floor? 10? BNY is extremely diverse. All you need to do is get on the internal intranet and go through some posts to which company employees participate. Youll see their pictures and your question will be self solved.
The idea and comments that Pittsburgh “lacks” diversity are mo--nic. Pittsburgh does have a lot of White citizens and there’s nothing wrong with that, even though Charlie, Monique, and the OP of this discusion will try to tell you otherwise. DON’T FALL FOR IT. White Americans have been here for a long time. Thousands of White European immigrants came here to work in the steel mills. Their decendants stayed here when this city was on it’s knees 40 years ago as the steel mills shut down. I don’t recall anybody complaining about diversity and inclusion during the hard times when there was high unemployment and citizens lost their homes. Many were forced to take low paying jobs to stay here and barely survive. Many took low paying jobs at Mellon just to have a job. People suffered, but they stuck around and worked hard to bring this city back and maintain the strong communities and culture we have today. Now Charlie, Monique, and the OP have the audacity to take jobs and opporunities away from the people who live here based soley on the color of their skin.
LOL, asking if it was Monique.
Is there anyone reading these posts that actually believe an African American woman working on the 4th floor in Pittsburgh actually started this thread?
In response to the other comment about PGH being weak on diversity, perhaps I should wear a GoPro to work tomorrow and post a link to it on here. lol
Monique, is this you?
Trying to offset the conjecture that you and Charlie discriminated against middle age white men by targeting this specific group for layoffs.
It's also a nice way to distract people from discussing the WFH privileges you're all but set on eliminating.
BNYM strikes me as very weak on race diversity in its US offices. It's been a long time since I've seen so many predominantly white faces. And yes, PGH is particularly white (from what I can see). This might be a function of having generally long-tenured staff (reduced by the recent layoffs yes, but still skewed towards older workers compared with other firms) . However, it does seem a bit better on the gender diversity front... possibly because of the famed WFH program? (So....)
(FYI I doubt Lester was hired because of his skin, more likely because he turned JPM Ops upside down.)
Diversity is only as good as the individual organization. We hear the right enterprise speeches and have P&P in place but it is only as good as the individual manager. No one discusses it but everyone has their own experiences and biases. People are smart at all companies. You hope it doesn't happen but it can't be prevented. A person can find a reason why one person is a better hire than another purely on a job skill. No one will blatantly say, I think the young guy in his early 20's without familial obligations is a better fit because he's more likely to be able to work late hours and weekends if needed. It will come down to a demonstrated soft or technical skill.
I notice that in almost all of the company brochures, or anything that features a picture of a team working together, there is usually an older guy with grey hair, a bit overweight, bald, etc., maybe a few of them, and a younger man -- but if there is a woman in any of the pictures, she is invariably young and pretty, sometimes with a bit of leg showing. The message here is, "Women are here for our visual pleasure. Older women need not apply.".
Talk about re-enforcing stereotypes. This is clearly a bank that brought a lot from the 1950s with it.
I agree with most of these comments, diversity IS NOT slacking at BNY Mellon at all! They poor out thousands and thousand of dollars providing non-US citizens to come to the states to work. Every department you can scale through the pictures and names and WE aware NOT lacking diversity. You will never be able to play that card at this company.
I am willing to bet that most people that were laid off don't look like you.
What a crock of sh1t. First off, you don't even mention WHICH Pittsburgh office. I am certain if I do a directory search on the AIM number for either Pittsburgh office, I will find profile pictures of several African American employees. Also managers are regularly forced to hire a minority regardless if they are the best candidate. The company is obsessed with diversity to the point of reverse discrimination.
OP - You have an unconscious bias. More African Americans and minorities are employed in Pittsburgh than the percentages of each in the general population. There are mandated minority hiring targets and the company is extremely generous with the BRG budgets. The company has several initiatives supporting minorities through mentoring and promotional opportunities. Yet, you still complain. Get out of your office and take a walk around campus.
Revise: Charlie Scharf, chairman of the BNY Mellon board of directors, has yet to recruit any minorities to the Board. What was Charlie Scharf's purpose bringing in Lester Owens. Just for presentation reasons?