Researchers submitted 83,000 fake job apps to see if the biggest U.S. companies discriminate. Here's what they found
Fast Company - 2024-04-11T17:01:00.000Z

In 2021, a group of researchers published the results of a wide-ranging experiment they had conducted to examine the hiring practices of leading employers across the country. Over the course of two years, they submitted more than 83,000 fake job applications for 11,000 entry-level positions at more than a hundred of the largest U.S. companies by revenue. The researchers sent in nearly identical sets of applications with names that were “distinctively Black” or “distinctively white”—as well as... Read this story