Diversity, Inclusion and Unconscious Bias @ Work

Unconscious Bias @ Work

• Dr. Brian Welle,
  Director of People Analytics at Google
• Data driven
• New HR
• Diversity vs. Innovation 

Decisions @ Google

• Data
• Analytics
• Research

Q. How are people making decisions?

Q. Are they always making best decisions? 

e.g., Resume

Word and Gender

Implicit association test

Word and Gender

implicit association test

With 1% variance in performance scores...

...only 35% of level 8 employee would be orange

Social Network

Name 5 people who you go to for work related advice 

Social network
Engineering

Social Network

Eng + Sales + HR

Advantage of Social networks

Generalist's broad social network 

• draw ideas from different groups
• Google to innovate beyond gmail

Intense social network

• Contact lens that measures the level of glucose in your blood to help diabetic people
• machine very very tiny
• chemists
• biologists