Meet The Owner: Black Owned Toronto
Yelp is proud to celebrate Black History Month by honouring and spotlighting incredible local Black-owned businesses. Let’s take a look at Toronto’s own Black-Owned TO. An incredible hub and resource to find wonderful Black-owned businesses, as well as a budding store and photography space. If you haven’t heard of them yet, read on… Thank you… Read more
From Noche Buena to Filipino Parols: Yelp Community Team’s Holiday Traditions!
Yelp’s Community Managers hype businesses in their cities for a living, so this holiday season we’ve asked Yelp CMs to hype their favorite family holiday traditions. Diandra L, Yelp Miami Community Director “Most Latinx traditions involve gathering and food. For Cuban-Americans celebrating Noche Buena (Christmas Eve) in Miami is all about roasting a pig, which… Read more
Workforce Diversity at Yelp
We have long focused our diversity, inclusion, and belonging efforts inside of Yelp, putting our energy into diverse hiring, equitable promotion practices, and operationalizing inclusion. This year brought new opportunities to extend our focus beyond the corporate setting. In the wake of our national reckoning with countless racial injustices, it became clear that we could… Read more
Yelp Joins the 15 Percent Pledge
Today, we’re excited to announce that we are joining the 15 Percent Pledge, an organization calling on retailers to dedicate 15% of their shelf space to Black-owned businesses. While we aren’t a traditional retailer, we recognize our unique position to help consumers use their purchase power to support businesses that align with their values. We’ve… Read more
Supporting our employees
Employees have the right to come to work every day and feel a sense of belonging. They have the right to see role models who look like them, and to have the communities they identify with outside the workplace support them inside the workplace. They have the right to the same opportunities, the same chance… Read more
An Update on Our Commitment to Change
The shooting of Jacob Blake by police in Wisconsin last week is a jarring reminder of the unrelenting brutality of racism in America. This latest use of excessive force on Black lives reminds us that we must remain vigilant and continue to demand racial justice. While our attention is constantly shifting with new headlines competing… Read more
Laying the groundwork for change
Our country has a long and fraught history of systemic oppression and anti-Black racism that we have shamefully not yet come close to overcoming. Police brutality, disproportionate incarceration, income disparity, the opportunity gap, and the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black and other minority communities, are only a few of the symptoms of this crisis…. Read more
Celebrating Veterans Day The Yelpy Way
Yelp’s mission is to connect people with great local businesses, so it should come as no surprise that we celebrated Veterans Day with a beer tasting from a local veteran-owned business: Ferment Drink Repeat – FDR Brewery. We talked to Karan Dinghra, the leader of VetConnect (Yelp’s veteran employee resource group), about how we support… Read more
Cultivating Engagement, Diversity, & Belonging at Yelp
It’s not news that diverse, engaged employees make for more profitable, productive workplaces. What’s been more elusive is the path there: how can we effectively diversify a company, foster a spirit of inclusion, and create a workplace where everyone feels they belong? At Yelp, we’ve decided to address this by making diversity, inclusion, and belonging… Read more
Yelp Celebrates Transgender Day of Visibility
Transgender people come from all walks of life: they are brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers, sons and daughters. They are your business owners, and they are your consumers. They are a diverse community representing all racial, ethnic, and faith backgrounds. Transgender Day of Visibility is celebrated every year on March 31. It’s a time… Read more