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Posted Mar 13, 2009
 President Pat Esser is a real diversity champion who chairs the diversity council and makes sure diversity's importance to the company's business is stressed to everyone. Cox's senior-executive team is also exceptionally involved and enthusiastic about diversity management. |
 Esser gets a perfect score in our criteria for CEO commitment and ties 10 percent of his senior executives' bonuses to diversity.
The work force is 34.5 percent Black, Latino and Asian, but they are 39.5 percent of new hires. In addition, Blacks, Latinos and Asians are 25.8 percent of managers.
Cox also has excellent work/life benefits, including very strong benefits for same-sex domestic partners of employees.
The company has strong mandatory diversity training, called "Creating an Inclusive Environment" and "On Common Ground" (modules related to age, gender, race, sexual orientation and language) and "Civil Treatment for Managers." Cox gets a perfect score for communicating its diversity commitment on its corporate web site. |
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Pat Esser, President
"Cox's business is all about connecting: connecting our customers to a broad array of entertainment and information through advanced broadband services; connecting our employees to training and resources to help them grow and develop; connecting with youth, education and environmental causes in our communities; and connecting with a variety of suppliers for products and services. We'll create opportunities for Cox--even in this challenging economic climate--by diversifying these critical connections to reach new customers, engage employees, support communities and widen our supply chain." |
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Mae Douglas, Senior Vice President and Chief People Officer
"Diversity and inclusion are core values woven deep into the fabric of our culture and business operations, which remain steadfast at Cox Communications. In fact, they're the firm foundation we'll build upon to turn today's challenges into tomorrow's business opportunities." |
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Industry
Telecommunications
Main Competitors
Verizon Communications, AT&T
U.S. Headquarters
Atlanta |
Number of U.S. Employees
23,000
Annual Revenue
$8.7 billion
% of Operations Outside U.S.
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