Facebook diversity struggle continues: 1,200 hires, only 7 were black

Facebook has revealed that it is struggling to improve its diversity figures with the release of its latest hiring data.

The company's Equal Employment Opportunity report revealed that of 1,231 hires in 2013 just seven of those were black while over half were white.

Maxine Williams is the Global Director of Diversity at Facebook stated: “While we have achieved positive movement over the last year, it’s clear to all of us that we still aren’t where we want to be. There’s more work to do.

“We remain deeply committed to building a workplace that reflects a broad range of experience, thought, geography, age, background, gender, sexual orientation, language, culture and many other characteristics.