We are not the first to take this step and are encouraged by the other companies that embrace a similar transparency in hopes this will encourage other gaming and tech companies to examine their own positions in an industry in which women, people of color, and other marginalized identities have been historically underrepresented.
Three years running we have conducted our annual demographic surveys completely anonymously in hopes that employees would feel comfortable providing the most accurate information. Each question on the demographic survey has “Prefer not to disclose” as a possible answer choice. The survey was distributed to a total of 201 employees and we received 191 responses at its conclusion. Those who did not respond are represented under “non-responsive” in the following data.
To protect the anonymity of employees further, answer choices that received less than three responses have been combined with other answers. Percentages are rounded to the nearest tenth.
We have seen participation for our Demographic Surveys improve year over year. We consider increased participation a huge win, as it’s an indication of increasing acceptance of our DE&I actions and trust in Pipeworks’ intentions to create meaningful changes with the data collected.
The “Gender” and “Race and Ethnicity” categories have been further broken down to compare overall studio demographics to the specific demographic makeups of the Engineering Department, Studio Leadership, and Studio Management. We chose to separate out these groups to show the demographic breakdown for departments that often have underrepresentation of marginalized groups. For these purposes, the Engineering Department consists of any respondents within the Engineering discipline; Studio Leadership refers to employees at our director level; and Management refers to any employees who directly oversee other employees.
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