Around 38% of tech workers think companies' responses to Floyd's death were 'tokenistic'. The figures come from a study of 55,000 people in the UK tech sector by Black Tech Fest. Tech companies pledged billions of dollars to tackle racial inequalities over the past year. Tech companies pledged billions of dollars to address racial inequality following the death of George Floyd but many of the sector's employees have noticed little change since his murder at the hands of the police a year ago. Almost two fifths (38%) of tech workers in the UK said their employers' response to the Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of Floyd's death was "tokenistic", according to a survey of 55,000 people in the industry by Black Tech Fest, a sister event to London Tech Week.