In Australia as well as the U.S., the company Perhaps most emblematic of Salesforce’s is known for its support for same-sex commitment to I&D is the 2016 decision marriage. Salesforce’s support for to create a new C-suite position, the Chief the LGBTQ community has not gone Equality Officer. Reporting to the CEO, unnoticed. The company has been graded Chief Equality Officer Tony Prophet is 100% by the Corporate Equality Index, responsible for ensuring that Salesforce which rates American businesses on reflects the diversity of the communities their treatment of LGBTQ employees, it serves and is truly inclusive. consumers, and investors. It has also received a Brilliance in Diversity Award from The National Diversity Council and was named no. 4 on Fortune’s Best Places to Work for Diversity. 26 Hope King, “Salesforce CEO: I didn’t focus on hiring women then. But I am now,” CNN, June 12, 2015, http://money.cnn.com/ 2015/06/12/technology/salesforce-ceo-women-equal-pay/index.html, accessed November 6, 2017. 27 Valentina Zarya, “Salesforce Spent $3 Million on Equal Pay. Here’s How Many Employees Got Raises as a Result,” Fortune, March 8, 2016, http://fortune. com/2016/03/08/salesforce-equal-pay/, accessed November 6, 2017. 28 Alexander C. Kaufman, “The CEO Who Took On Indiana’s Anti-LGBT Law — And Won,” Huffington Post, April 7, 2015, https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/07/marc-benioff-indiana_n_7017032.html, accessed November 6, 2017. 30

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