That’s a really small number compared to the 147,000 employees that Apple has, but it’s significant internally because this is all circulating through Slack channels kind of ad hoc.

This engineer, Cher Scarlett, starts it and 2,000 people participate. They start another one and this time, it’s run completely externally. Apple shuts it down, saying you can’t run it on the corporate Box account. Employees start another survey on the corporate Box account. Apple shuts the first one down in the spring saying that the survey contains personal identifiable information (PII).

They start putting out employee-run surveys asking how much people at the company make, how they identify in terms of race and gender, where they are located, etc. They’re chatting amongst themselves, realizing that, “Hey, I, as a woman on this team, make a little bit less than the men I know around me.” But it’s all anecdotal, so a bunch of employees want to verify that the company actually has pay equity. In 2021 employees have started to become skeptical.

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