| DonFerrari said: If two workers are basically identical in skills and you decide to hire the one from poorest family, minority or gender to bring more variety and point of views to company it can be beneficial... |
This is often, or at least, prior to the trend of wanting to what essentially boils down as hiring "token" genders and races simply to count them within your ranks, the above practices would be done through interviews and getting a feel for the persons background, in such cases the interviewer would compare skill set and take into consideration which employee would both benefit the company and find benefit from the employment, in these instances though, they would not hire the poor person if their skillset was below that of another applicant, unless the higher skilled applicant demonstrated an attitude the interviewer found undesirable and incompatible with the workplace (such as overconfident, sarcastic, etc).
