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A Network of Networks
HP’s employee groups were heavily localized and driven by grassroots actors, resulting in a wide range of organizations throughout the company. This table, printed in a U.S. publication, helped employ ...
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Black Employees Forum
The Black Employees Forum was HP’s oldest resource group, with roots dating back to the 1970s — long before resource groups were formally organized or empowered. By 1995, when John Blue (left) and Art ...
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Black Employees Reach Out
After HP employee groups received formal charters, it was much easier for them to articulate formal platforms and explain their missions to HP employees. This pamphlet from the Bay Area Black Employee ...
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Employee Networks: A How-To Guide
HP published this insert offering guidance to employees who wanted to start new employee groups in a 1995 issue of its employee newsletter, Measure. The same issue highlighted the accomplishments of e ...
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Employee Resource Groups
In the 1990s HP CEO Lew Platt oversaw a formal chartering process for HP’s working groups for minority and women employees. Chartered groups gained access to email, conference rooms, the HP logo and s ...
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Formalizing LGBTQ+ Representation
The HP Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Employee Network (GLEN) was among the first resource groups to receive an official charter from HP, and the informal networks that preceded it went back to the 1970s, ...
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HP Asian Indian Employees Network
The HP Asian Indian Employees Network was inaugurated in June 1996 with an elaborate ceremony at HP’s Palo Alto headquarters. The festivities included a traditional Indian dance performed by software ...
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Strength in Diversity
By 1997 HP’s record on diversity was so strong that the company took out a full-page advertisement in Fortune chronicling its programs and their accomplishments. CEO Lew Platt declared, “Our diversity ...