Apple had 92,600 full-time employees as of September 2014.
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The company is currently trying to hire at least 86 more employees with expertise in the branch of artificial intelligence known as machine learning
Apple Inc said it had hired over 11,000 women globally in the past year - 65 per cent more than the previous year - to boost employee diversity.
"In the first 6 months of this year, nearly 50 per cent of the people we've hired in the United States are women, Black, Hispanic, or Native American," Chief Executive Tim Cook said in a message on the company's website.
Cook maintained there was "a lot" more work to be done.
Apple had 92,600 full-time employees as of September 2014.
Diversity reports in the recent past have spurred a national debate about the lack of diversity at Silicon Valley's tech companies and how to improve gender and race ratios.
( Source : reuters )
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