Dive Brief:

• Intel, the Santa Clara, California-based computer chip maker, will double referral bonuses for employees who suggest women, minorities and veterans as job candidates, according to an article at Huffington Post. Employees who identify successful matches will receive up to $4,000. 
• Like the majority of its Silicon Valley peers, Intel has a long way to go when it comes to its own employee demographics. Women make up 24% of the company, while black and Latino employees represent 3.5% and 8% of the entire workforce, respectively. Just over half of its employees are white, and around a third are Asian.
• The percentage of women in computing jobs has been on the decline for the last two decades. Women hold 17% of the tech jobs at Google, and 15% at Facebook, the Huffington Post reports.

Dive Insight:

This move makes sense, since in January Intel committed $300 million to improving its workforce diversity within five years. The initiative aims to attract more women and minorities to the field, and seeks to support more engineering scholarships and historically black universities.

"Intel is committed to increase the diversity of our workforce," spokeswoman Gail Dundas said in a statement to The Huffington Post. "We are currently offering our employees an additional incentive to help us attract diverse qualified candidates in a competitive environment for talent."

The diversity challenge for the tech industry continues, though ThoughtWorks, a tech consulting firm based in Chicago, has nearly doubled the percentage of women in tech roles to 32%, The Huffington Post reports.