More Tough News for Intel: Threats Over Diversity Initiative

Just days after announcing the company would be laying off 12,000 people - or 11 percent of its global work force - Intel disclosed that company executives have received threats over its diversity initiative.

And to make matters worse, the threats to executives have come from the company's own employees.

That's according to the website, TechCrunch.

The site quotes Intel CEO Brian Krzanich telling a conference: "There's been a bit of resistance. We've even had a few threats and things like that on some of our leadership team around our position on diversity and inclusion.

"We stand up there and just remind everybody it’s not an exclusive process. We’re not bringing in women or African-Americans or Hispanics in exclusion to other people. We’re actually just trying to bring them in and be a part of the whole environment."