HP makes efforts to attract women in Asia

In Asia-Pacific and Japan Hewlett-Packard is making efforts to attract qualified female employees in order to have a workforce profile that reflects the diverse one billion people using HP products worldwide. HP is planning to triple the number of female managers in the next two years. For that purpose HP plans to set up a 60-acre campus in Malaysia in order to reinforce its position as the largest information technology (IT) company in the country. Currently, HP has 15,000 managers worldwide, of whom 4,000 are in Asia-Pacific. The company is aiming to enhance its workforce according to the growth of the population in Asia-Pacific especially in Malaysia. “When we talk about tripling the number of managers, the company is looking to improve diversity in the company and to hiring women into senior roles and have put in place initiatives that would support women managers joining HP,” states Michael Vivakis, HR vice-president (Asia-Pacific and Japan). These measures would include the offer of flexible work schedules, sensitise managers for Gender and Diversity issues and organising or funding events like the Global Women Summit. In addition HP has caught a lot of attention regarding projects such as the “HP-Star Career Day: Empowering Women in IT”. The company is also running internal Diversity campaigns to create a greater acceptance and appreciation of a diverse workforce.

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