Large technology companies publish annual workforce demographic reports.
By 2017 Google, Apple and Facebook were each publishing recurring reports on the demographic composition of their workforces. The underlying figures come substantially from the EEO-1 forms these companies already file with the federal government; the reports made that data public voluntarily and in a summarised form.
The entry previously stated that this practice established transparency standards that spread across corporate America and influenced national diversity practice. No source cited here establishes that this reporting caused practice to change elsewhere, and the claim has been downgraded to what the primary documents show: several large firms adopted a recurring public disclosure, and continued it annually.