How Can GitHub Retain Employees?

Abstract

GitHub was a San Francisco-based repository for software tools and projects constituted by its community of 28 million members (as of August 2018). Then CEO and Co-Founder Chris Wanstrath (2017) proclaimed that he wanted to improve retention of a diverse workforce. He wondered what more GitHub could do. He regretted the story of Coraline Ada Ehmke who left GitHub. The recent acquisition of GitHub by Microsoft would result in new leadership and HR management probably reflective of Microsoft, which appeared to handle diversity effectively. But GitHub managers nevertheless had to continue working on retention.