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| Studies show that employees working in a diverse environment tend to feel more fulfilled, creative, and productive on the job. They also tend to experience higher levels of positive morale and job satisfaction. At Intel, these factors contribute directly toward making our company a great place to work, create, and innovate. |
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 Our employees bring a unique and valued perspective to Intel. Their creativity, productivity and experience make it possible for us to remain innovative and competitive. Intel's continued success as a company depends on our ability to meet the needs of our global, diverse workforce. We are dedicated to making the Intel environment a place where our employees thrive creatively and intellectually.
Our employees' faces reflect those of our customers, vendors, and colleagues in the global market. This worldwide perspective makes it possible for us to anticipate and provide for the growing needs of a changing marketplace.
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The case studies below illustrate how diversity has led to increased productivity and efficiency, and resulted in the creation of innovative concepts and revolutionary products such as Intel® Centrino® processor technology.
A wireless revolution
 Throughout Intel history, our employees have challenged the status quo by contributing to the success of our landmark products. To create Intel Centrino processor technology, a “first-ever?platform combining outstanding mobile performance, great battery life and integrated wireless LAN capability, Intel tapped directly into the ingenuity of its diverse workforce.
Our talented mobile engineering teams based in Israel and the U.S. collaborated on platform development. Our mobile marketing and business development teams combined their expertise to drive strategies enabling the deployment of WLAN infrastructures and public wireless hotspots around the globe.
By connecting employees from different geographies, backgrounds and experience, we were able to utilize their unique talents to create a product that has revolutionized the way that people live and work. This combination of unique ideas and fearless risk-taking ultimately transformed our company.
Diversity as strategy
Calculated risk-taking is an important element of Intel's culture. Fab Materials Operations—Silicon, a department located within the Technology and Manufacturing Group (TMG), brought this value to life when its leaders decided to consciously build workforce diversity into their strategy for maximizing team effectiveness.
Through thoughtful implementation, the team was able to deliberately use tactics such as job swapping and controlled employee role changes to increase the efficiency of their teams. Their intentional blending of talent from a variety of backgrounds, geographies, previous work experience, and areas of expertise resulted in the achievement of rock-solid business continuity, an unparalleled reduction in excursions, and an almost zero percent undesired turnover rate since 2001.
Diversity inspires
 Intel's workforce diversity played a direct role in creating and ensuring the success of Intel Corporate Services' (CS) global conference INSPIRE (International Summit for Proliferating Ideas and Recognizing Excellence).
This unique event brings together innovators and leaders from all levels, groups, and countries within Intel Corporate Services, a division of TMG.
The conference’s original steering committee was a diverse group on several levels: there was global representation, gender and cultural diversity, as well as the collaboration of a variety of work experiences and perspectives. These creative elements enabled the steering committee to develop an unconventional conference-based, shared-learning process that has driven millions of dollars in savings for CS and is viewed as a significant strategic asset for the group.
As a result of its success, the INSPIRE concept has been proliferated across other TMG groups and IT. The role that diversity has played in this project has now been designed into the planning process: each year, more than half of the members of the INSPIRE steering committee are new, ensuring that the benefits of diverse perspectives are present each year.
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