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52 MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS FIGURE 29 Percent of Eligible Employees Teleworking in FY 2011 and FY 2012 FIGURE 30 USPTO Hoteling across the USA PERFORMANCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY REPORT: FISCAL YEAR 2012
ment Council. The reorganization resulted in a more strategic, proactive, and organizationally independent functional unit than its predecessor, the Office of Civil Rights. Notably, the USPTO is 28 percent Asian, 21 percent African-American, and 3 percent Hispanic (Figure 31). Also, females comprise 35 percent of the USPTO’s employee population. The reorganization has improved the prominence of the USPTO’s diversity program. Perhaps most importantly, on April 17, 2012, the USPTO hosted the firstever White House Initiative on the Asian American and Pacific Islander Federal Employee Conference. OEEOD led the drafting of the agency’s first Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan (D&ISP) under Executive Order 13583. The D&ISP outlines of the agency’s efforts to attract and engage a diverse workforce, and to equip managers with the tools they need to manage diversity and institutionalize a culture of inclusion. OEEOD also managed the agency’s National Engineering Week event in partnership with the Office of Education and several of the agency’s affinity groups. The interactive, hands-on program focused on bringing in local students to build robots, with the hope of inspiring them to pursue careers in engineering and science. OEEOD expanded the New Examiner Mentoring Program from 50 mentoring pairs to over 100 pairs, after the initial pilot demonstrated overwhelmingly FIGURE 31 Total USPTO Employees by Race and National Origin MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS positive results – the attrition rate for mentees was half that of new examiners who did not participate. The program’s goal is to help new patent examiners acclimate to the agency and improve retention past the initial probationary period. OEEOD actively supports a network of 12 affinity groups. To improve the institutional support, OEEOD created a Diversity Outreach Coordinator position whose function is to oversee and conduct the efforts of the agency’s volunteer employee groups. OEEOD’s work includes conducting quarterly meetings with the leaders of the affinity groups to discuss joint projects, delivering a leadership training retreat for the affinity group leaders, assisting with events, and hosting an annual International Food Sample Festival that allowed the affinity groups to showcase diversity through food. On May 10, 2012, the agency hosted its annual capstone diversity event, Community Day. On Community Day, USPTO offices, unions, employee resource groups, and civic groups showcase their organizations through table-top displays in the outdoor area surrounding our main campus in Alexandria, Virginia. On Community Day, the agency’s Director initiated the event, expressed a commitment to a diverse workforce, and presented the agency’s Equal Employment Opportunity Award. The event also engages with our broader community, as the event is open to the public and is coordinated with the City of Alexandria. Community Day has four core purposes: (1) inform employees of the agency equal employment opportunity policy and program; (2) provide recognition, in the form of the Equal Employment Opportunity Award, to employees that demonstrate superior accomplishments in support of the agency’s diversity program, as required; (3) promote active engagement in recognized employee resource groups, and educate the workforce on office initiatives (e.g., employee viewpoint survey, computer security, wellness programs, green initiatives, etc.); and (4) expose employees to civic organizations in the broader community (City of Alexandria) to improve community conditions that affect employability. www.uspto.gov 53
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