Google scraps diversity hiring goals and cites Trump’s DEI orders
The company issued a statement after the news broke: “We’re committed to creating a workplace where all our employees can succeed and have equal opportunities, and over the last year we’ve been reviewing our programs designed to help us get there. We’ve updated our 10-k language to reflect this, and as a federal contractor, our teams are also evaluating changes required following recent court decisions and executive orders on this topic.”
Alphabet’s annual filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday showed it omitted a line saying it was “committed to making diversity, equity and inclusion part of everything we do and to growing a workforce that is representative of the users we serve”. That statement had appeared in annual reports from 2021 to 2023.
Google told employees it was reviewing recent court decisions and executive orders by
aimed atcurbing DEI
in the government and federal contractors.
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What we know so far about Trump’s orders on diversity, equity and inclusion
Google’s head of HR, Fiona Cicconi, said in a memo published by
: “For example, in 2020, we set aspirational hiring goals and focused on growing our offices outside California and New York to improve representation … In the future we will no longer have aspirational goals.”Earlier this month, Facebook parent
Platforms said in an internal memo it wasending its DEI programs
, including those for hiring, training and picking suppliers.Amazon also said it was “winding down outdated programs and materials” related to representation and inclusion, in a memo to its employees, seen by Reuters.
Conservative groups, fortified by a 2023 US supreme court ruling that invalidated affirmative action in university admissions, have condemned DEI programs and have threatened litigation against companies implementing them.
and other allies of Trumpattributed DEI programs
as an impediment to the response efforts for the severe wildfires in Los Angeles.