Upoc polls shows split views on Barack speech
Upoc subscribers can opt-in to a poll group. This group asks the user base their opinions on a wide range of topics. This week, a poll inquired about the recent speech made by Barack Obama on race relations.|
· Explained everything
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25%
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· Explained nothing
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47%
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· Satisfied
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28%
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split between a positive response ("Explained everything" and "Satisfied") and the negative choice ("Explained nothing"). Since two of the three possible answers are positive, I would have to admit that the poll structure had a positive bias. With that bias and the significance that this speech has been given by the campaigns and the media, our result would clearly indicate that this issue will not fade away in the near future, and that more explanation from the Obama camp will be necessary.
Diversity in the Mobile Workplace
Diversity in our Mobile Marketplace makes workforce diversity a double necessity.
In my previous blog I presented a slice of the diverse life we have in New York. Living and working in New York provides a Mobile company such as Upoc Networks an advantage in providing innovative services that reach a diverse marketplace.
Upoc Networks workforce has about 50 employees. The standard EEO classifications of race, color, religion, sex, national origin barely scratch the surface of Upoc’s diversity. By EEO standards we have, at any one time, over 20 combinations of classifications.
When I think of diversity I add other factors such social-economic background, age, education, work experience and sexual orientation. My awareness of our total diversity is obviously incomplete, but I would venture to say that we would be hard pressed to find more than a couple of employees who were similar in all aspects. This is the workforce we draw from, this is the city where we are headquartered, and most importantly , this is representative of the marketplace in which we compete.
We did not sit down as a Management team and place various diversity hiring goals, it has been not necessary. I have observed throughout my career that if your existing organization has diversity, it will attract and retain diversity.
There are obviously many companies and regions that have diversity, but no city has the history and the reputation of being the world’s melting pot.
New York is a city with over 100 nationalities, every major religion (and probably more than few that are not so “major”), every ethnicity, culture, race, creed, sexual orientation, political affiliation and social/economic status.
What is perhaps truly amazing is that this patchwork quilt of cultures co-exist in relative harmony within New York.
Moslems and Jews, Blacks and Whites, Japanese, Chinese and Koreans, Catholics and Protestants , Serbs, Russians, Hispanics, the list goes on and on. In other areas of the world the same groups might be at war, but in New York they seem to blend and even feed off of each others culture.
It must be something in the water!
New York, New York.
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