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
Volunteer Fair at Yelp
In the spirit of giving back this #GivingTuesday, Yelp hosted its first ever Volunteer Fair in two of its offices, San Francisco, CA and Scottsdale, AZ. Both Volunteer Fairs focused on giving a platform to a diverse range of nonprofit organizations in each city, and gave our employees a chance to learn more about serving… Read more
Building a More Inclusive Yelp
For the fifth year in a row, Yelp is publicly sharing its gender and ethnic diversity data. Like other companies, we know we still have a long way to go to get where we want to be, but we’re happy with our progress and our commitment to making Yelp more diverse, more inclusive, and yes,… Read more
Yelp Employees Celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility
Transgender Day of Visibility is an opportunity for anyone to show support for the transgender community. This year’s theme is “surviving, thriving”, so we wanted to spotlight a few Yelp employees sharing their story on #Transthriving. Meet our Yelp Transgender employees looking to spread awareness and empowerment of trans people around the world. What does… Read more
Support Local Black-Owned Businesses During Black History Month
Yelp’s goal is to connect people with great local businesses. Many of these businesses are successful, black-owned and operated and this Black History Month, we want to highlight and support them. To celebrate Black History Month, our Yelp Community Managers in association with two of our Employee Resource Groups, Colorcoded and DiverseBurst, have curated a… Read more
Yelp Groups Support Project Eñye
Yelp’s DiverseBurst & ColorCoded Employee Resource Groups hosted an evening of learning with an exclusive screening of the inspirational documentary “being ñ.” The event offered the unique opportunity to meet the filmmakers, Denise Soler-Cox and Henry Ansbacher who led a thought-provoking Q&A after the film. Project ñ (http://projectenye.com) is a multimedia documentary project focused on… Read more
DiverseBurst Reflections on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
This week we are celebrating the life of Martin Luther King Jr. A man who stood for peace, unity, and justice for all Americans regardless of ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation. For the second year in a row, we marched in unity with other companies in San Francisco to commemorate the crossing of the Edmund… Read more
Yelp Earns Top Marks in 2018 Corporate Equality Index
We’re so excited to announce today that, for the fourth year in a row, Yelp has received a perfect score on the Corporate Equality Index (CEI) and earned the designation as a 2018 Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality. The Corporate Equality Index is a national benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and… Read more
Yelp Parents Host Halloween Hullabaloo
This Halloween, the Yelp Parents Employee Resource Group hosted our annual Halloween Hullabaloo, inviting family members and children to the office for spook-tacular festivities. With over 500 participants across our domestic offices, the little Yelpers had fun activities planned around the office and many goodies to collect! Yelp teams got in the spirit by… Read more
The Importance of Employee Engagement
Last year, I shared why inclusiveness and building internal communities is so important. While this is still true, so much around the conversation with regard to diversity and inclusion has changed in Silicon Valley. When this conversation first started, we were solely focused on representation ‒ recruiting diverse talent and the numbers. Later, the conversation… Read more