U.S. companies regularly track information on the makeup of their workforce (number of employees, job types, demographics of the workers) and file it with the federal government each year in an EEO-1 form. Many firms make their EEO data public, but for many years tech companies fought to keep it private. LinkedIn, Facebook, Google, and other tech firms have since relented and released data on gender and racial and ethnic diversity. But Apple and Amazon are still holding out.Why? We have no idea. GeekWire's Blair Hanley Frank wonders whether the secrecy has something to do with the one thing Amazon and Apple share (besides the “A”): both companies employ large workforces “outside of their core engineering and product development teams – Amazon in its fulfillment centers, Apple in its retail stores.” But even he is unclear about why that would matter. — M.B.
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