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Imran Syed represented Hatch at the Urban League of Greater San Francisco Bay Area's Empowerment Gala and Garden Soiree, at a table hosted by our law firm.
Worth being precise about that. The table was theirs. We were guests, not sponsors, and this note is not a claim to be one.
What the Urban League does
The Urban League of Greater San Francisco Bay Area works on economic mobility across four areas: education, economic development, health and social justice. The gala exists to honour community leaders doing that work. UCSF, Kaiser Permanente, Google, Salesforce, Amazon, Airbnb, PG&E, AT&T, EY, the Port of Oakland and a long tail of local foundations, banks, wineries and newspapers were all on the wall.
Why a workforce company pays attention
Hatch's argument is that most companies cannot see what their people actually contribute. That blindness is not evenly distributed in its effects.
When contribution is invisible, credit flows to whoever was already visible. The person with the loudest channel, the longest tenure, the closest proximity to the decision maker. Everyone else gets assessed on impressions. Economic mobility work and measurement work meet precisely there, and it is the least sentimental argument for better measurement we know of.
We are not claiming to have solved that. We are saying it is the same problem, approached from a different end, and that an afternoon in a room full of people working the other end is time well spent.
Thanks
To our law firm for the seat, and to the Urban League for the work. Details on their programmes are at ulbayarea.org.
