Several unnamed city officials told the outlet that the request is clearly an effort to hire more diverse staffers.
However, Adams maintains that it will merely help him recognize his employees in the sprawling city workforce.
Mayor Eric Adams believes the photos will recognize potential employees of color in the city’s workforce.Compounding the issue, nearly every official Politico spoke to also said the headshot request created another snag in the drawn-out hiring process — straying away from the mayor’s signature motto of “get stuff done” at a time when city job vacancies are unusually high. About 8 percent of municipal jobs were vacant as of April, according to data from the Citizens Budget Commission.
“Clarifying also that the avatars in the attached should be actual photos as the Mayor likes to begin to recognize folks faces,” a mayoral staffer wrote in the email, according to the publication. “The whole hiring process this City Hall set up is difficult enough, and the photo requirement just takes it from hard to bizarre and uncomfortable,” another high-ranking agency official said.
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