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Skip to main contentSkip to navigation&lt;&gt;While the continue an internal investigation into former executive Jared Porter's with a female reporter, the team is planning to make changes to its hiring process.Speaking publicly for the first time since last month as the ' general manager, Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer said his organization's new hiring practice will start with a more "thorough" background check on any potential employee."I think about the way we would like our process to be, like for a first-round draft pick," Hoyer said Monday. "And to be candid, sometimes in the hiring process we probably rely on a handful of bosses that a person has to talk through, and maybe we don't talk to enough people or a broad range of people."Hoyer specifically mentioned talking to more women who have worked with or in proximity to the candidate. He wants to bring the kind of focus the Cubs use in the draft, where many people from the player's life have a voice in the process."I think when it comes to being incredibly thorough, our background checks -- [we should be] trying to interview not just a person's bosses or people that you know well, but trying to dig in and interview, whether it's women that they worked with in the past [or] whether it's female reporters they've worked with," Hoyer said. "It's really important to be thorough."Porter was a member of the Cubs' front office when he sent explicit, unwanted texts to a female reporter in 2016. Since his firing, another high-profile leader -- pitching coach and former Mets manager Mickey Callaway -- has for his interactions with multiple women."It's my job to make sure every woman that works here, every woman that is a reporter for our team, every vendor, everyone that comes through Wrigley Field has to feel like this is a wonderful environment to work in, and they have to look forward to being here," Hoyer said. "We need to get to that place, as those incidents are disturbing. There's no place for them in the game, and we have to get to a place where it's not just an OK culture but a culture where women can thrive."Hoyer couldn't declare a timetable for the Cubs' internal investigation but said interviews were being done. One employee allegedly knew about the inappropriate behavior displayed by Porter but didn't report it up the chain of the command.Hoyer also said he will employ his new hiring practices in the Cubs' own search for a general manager."That's one of the things we talked about as far as the search for the GM position," he said.

Skip to main contentSkip to navigation&lt;&gt;While the continue an internal investigation into former executive Jared Porter's with a female reporter, the team is planning to make changes to its hiring process.Speaking publicly for the first time since last month as the ' general manager, Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer said his organization's new hiring practice will start with a more "thorough" background check on any potential employee."I think about the way we would like our process to be, like for a first-round draft pick," Hoyer said Monday. "And to be candid,...

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