There are three reasons why DEI might die. The first is that Americans are reevaluating the programs.
As more challenging times hit corporate America, its leaders are taking a second look at inclusion initiatives. They are not finding the expected results. Thus, the process of reorganizing, rethinking, and restructuring has led to more DEI layoffs than in other fields.
Both leaders and employees are also taking a harder look at the agenda behind the programs that go beyond the workings and needs of the average American corporation. It is easy to see how DEI melds well with Critical Race Theory (CRT), gender ideology, pronoun tyranny, and all things woke.
Many Americans generally resent the intense pressure used to force these programs on the population, schools, and business communities. The corrosive ideas tend to create and increase Marxist-style class struggle between imagined oppressors and oppressed. Others complain that DEI standards are subjective and arbitrary and do not translate into what is needed in their businesses and the nation.
Tactical retreat only. You are still scheduled to go extict.
The trend on this appears to be an emphasis on the word “equity,” which the Left seems to find superior for their purposes to equality. Really, it’s just a way for stupid people to think that they sound smart by using a new word.
I don’t know which corporations this author is referring to although he names three show-biz entities, but I work for one of the world’s top banks. They have not backed away from DEI crap one iota. We have a team of over 40 people and only 10 are white. Only 4 are white men.
I think the HR departments are just learning to keep their mouths shut. No change in actual hiring and promoting. They realized celebrating their win with DEI rubbed salt in the wound.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs the Left’s most useless and money losing idea to date ,LOL
Maybe will see white people in TV ads again
They can push to reform society all they want. The plaintiff’s bar will take the money in the meantime.
What money? Money that these corporations are going to be coughing up when the discrimination lawsuits come rolling in and they will come rolling in. Slowly at first, but when the wave gets going, it will be tidal.
What do these DEI executives do all day? What do they produce? If they do get laid off, what business would hire an ex DEI executive? I didn’t know that was a college major.
No, DEI isn’t going away. They are just going to give it a different name. They can’t give this up because it is their most brilliant strategy ever - use the productivity and wealth of corporations to 1) act against interests of shareholders 2) destroy the organizations that implement it and 3) use their resources to further the left’s agenda.
Dem AGs Tell Corporates: Ignore Conservatives, ‘Double Down’ on ‘Diversity’.
Democrat attorneys general for 21 states plus Washington D.C. have written to Fortune 500 executives urging them to keep using corporate power to push diversity.
SCOTUS ruling that disaffirmed Affirmative Action was a good thing at a time when we needed something like that.