Reply to post: Re: sorry or not

IBM so very, very sorry after jobs page casually asks hopefuls: Are you white, black... or yellow?

Cederic Silver badge

Re: sorry or not

It's impossible to gather and assess data on the racial demographics of people applying to work for you, and whether they were successful in that application.

There are multiple legitimate reasons for performing such an assessment, none of which are inappropriate or illegal, some of which may even be legally mandated (but I'm not sure - certainly gender is legally required to be tracked so maybe race and skin colour are too).

I'd have had to select 'other'; my skin colour is lemon chiffon.

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