Soon after former engineer Susan Fowler set off a bombshell with a widely read blog post that accused the company of ignoring her complaints about sexual harassment and fostering gender discrimination, Uber expanded its team that focuses on diversity and inclusion.
But the company will ramp up its efforts in response to the Holder report, making diversity an executive-level priority.
Uber's renaming its Head of Diversity position to Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer — although its unclear whether its current head, Bernard Coleman, will take the new title. It also plans to establish an employee diversity board, regularly publish its diversity statistics, and overhaul its efforts to recruit women and underrepresented minority job candidates.
Additionally, Uber plans to start evaluating employees in part on their efforts to encourage diversity.
"There are lots of passionate people at Uber working hard to make our workplace diverse. They do it because they care, and it’s the right thing to do, not just because it’s part of their ‘day job,'" Hornsey wrote in an email to Uber's employees. "We need to recognize and reward all these efforts as part of performance evaluation and as part of our cultural values."