These are 13 of the most LGBTQ friendly tech companies

These are 13 of the most LGBTQ friendly tech companiesThese are 13 of the most LGBTQ friendly tech companiesJune is Pride Month. This is a month-long celebration of the LGBTQ community that includes parades, workshops, and many other events. Many tech companies have gotten in on the Pride ride as they want to celebrate their employees in this important community.Blind, a workplace app for tech workers, used by 40,000 Microsoft employees, 25,000 from Amazon, 10,000 from Google, 7,000 from Uber, 6,000 from Facebook, and thousands from other tech companies, polled its users to see how LGBTQ friendly their company is.Here were the findings of the survey (conducted from May 29 through June 3 of this year) of 2,475 respondents when askedto answer with True or False to this statement My current work environment is LGBTQ friendly.The 13 most LGBTQ-friendly tech companies1. Pinterest 98.15% said True2. Salesforce 96.49% said True3. LinkedIn 96.49%said True4. Uber 96.40%said True5. Apple 96.23 %said True6. Facebook 96.00%said True7. Lyft 95.08%said True8. Google 94.85%said True9. eBay 92.31%said True10. Microsoft 91.76% said True11. Amazon 91.55% said True12. Snapchat 88.68% said True13. Airbnb 87.04% said TrueWell, it was Pinterest for the win, but Salesforce and LinkedIn werent far behind. Overall, 92.3% of those surveyed said the statement is True and nine of the 13 tech companies finished with a higher percentage of True responses than the overall survey average of 92.3%.Not all good newsDespite this positive news, Blind cited some unfortunate facts from CreditDonkey about LGBT workers.Approximately 1 in every 4 LGBT people has undergone some type of discrimination in their lifetime.As many as 30% of transgender workers have reported some type of discrimination in the workplace, including being fired or not getting a versetzung because of their sexual identity.An estimated that 9.1% of gay couples and 4.9% of lesbian couples over the age of 65 live in poverty due to a lifetime of discrimination in the workplace.Only 21% of US companies offer paid family leave 23% offer paid adoption leave and just 15% offer paid foster child leave.