Microsoft lays off its DEI team as fired staff complain diversity ideals were 'no longer business-critical'

UK Daily Mail ^ | July 16, 2024 | Will Potter

[CatOwner]

They got paid well for four years. They’re likely to be “fired” under a WARN, so 60 more days of pay to find another job? Helluva lot better than what many Americans had to suffer through during that time.

[Vaduz]

DEI = Inept & Tokens

Must be a tax brake deal for pro stupidity?.

[ealgeone]

DIE was never critical to the success of any business.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

This will NOT impact HR’s “hire more women” directive in any way.
Alphabet queers and melanin minorities will be affected.

The C-level leadership are now majority women.
They aren’t giving up on that glass ceiling.

They can bring home the bacon.
Fry it up in a pan
And, never ever let you forget you got no nuts.

[Tell It Right]

IMHO, few DEI's knew how to sue an IDE anyway. For whatever reason, white and Asian males are about the only people who grow up wanting to be a programmer.

IDE = Integrated Developer Environment, since this article is about Micro$oft.

[rktman]

DOH! More brilliance at MS. FIDIOTS!

[Tell It Right]

Oops, I meant “use an IDE”, not sue one. LOL

[Socon-Econ]

Microsoft has chosen merit — and tech that works well — over DEI.

[DeplorablePaul]

DEI was always cynical corporate window dressing. The expensive DEI staff are useless overhead. Any DEI policies actually implemented discriminates against whites and opens the corporation to law suits.

[Lee'sGhost]

diversity ideals were ‘no longer business-critical’

Ppsssttt.... They never were.

[HIDEK6]

leading the program's leader to slam the company's 'changing business needs.'

Sounds like some woman’s ox got gored.

[Socon-Econ]

But they may have to flee Washingto State as a result.

[PeterPrinciple]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/diversity/default

who gets to write the 2024 report?

[Zathras]

Intel does this all the time but two weeks before, closes all the reqs.
These people are gone..as they should be.

[mewzilla]

Betcha they’ll just call the same group something else and promote from within...

[IncPen]

Microsoft employees discover the ways of the left:

[adorno]

DEI stands for’ Worst Idea Ever.

Make sense? Letters don’t fit, but the definition does.

[lurk]

Woke was built on wobbly axles to begin. It’s only a matter of time before their numbers go negative.

[pburgh01]

DEI = Hire more incompetent Blacks, trannys, and feckless girlboss women.