What Diversity Can Make Your Company - 1435 Words

Diversity in the Workplace Devany Irvin Over the course of time, people from many different cultures have migrated to the United States, making our nation and workforce a melting pot of languages. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, it is estimated that currently more than 300 languages are spoken in the United States. This makes it a daily challenge for companies who provide us with our daily needs and wants, it is evident that not all companies hire one person per every language spoken in the United States. However it is important that companies make an effort to hire a diverse workforce. There are many pros to hiring diversity, for example an increase in sales due to a larger market, better customer service, and†¦show more content†¦Many different cultures live or travel to the US making it hard on those companies who don’t have any diversity in their corporation. Companies who come across the opportunity to hire well qualified people who come from a different background, should hire them. This does not mean to turn down a perfectly good candidate for the lack of a second language. A multicultural, talented, and well trained employee gives their perspective companies a key advantage over their competitors. Diversity equates to a great amount of profit for the US, the combined Black, Hispanic, and Asian buying power is more than $750 billion. This is a huge contributing factor for US companies, as much of their profit is incorporated in the $750 billion. It is understandable companies do not want extra personnel due to the cost expenditure. However if the employee is bringing in more profit than what it is costing the company to keep them, why not have a designated job for a multicultural employee? Diversification these days, means so much more just than hiring minorities. Offering promotions and career options gives employees a chance to move forward without feeling ‘stuck.’ Employees who have a higher title in their job have a smaller turnover rate than those whom ne ver move forward with their careers. On a daily basis companies have people from different cultures walk into their institutions, a lot of the time when the customers try to communicate there is a language