BBC Aims for 25% Representative Workforce, Reveals Commercial Board

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  1. More complaining about the licence fee freeze.

    Whenever I’ve switched on they seem to be wasting a good chunk of it on Matt Baker’s Entourage for the Rickshaw Challenge. Or something equally as unimportant.

  2. > “We will introduce a new target for 25% of our staff to come from low socio-economic backgrounds by 2027, to ensure our workforce is more representative of the audiences we serve,” the BBC said in a statement.

    Wonder if they’ll have the savvy to work with / set up feeder schools for this goal.

    Without them it seems like they’ll be hoping to find appropriate talent based on the prayer it exists – I’m not sure how many people from low socio-economic backgrounds go into media production or the kind of roles the Beeb hires from but it seems a little niche. If people aren’t being trained in it (because they’re not interested or can’t find a route in) then the BBC will be up shit creak when it comes to hiring them. Can’t hire what doesn’t exist.

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