Google has become the last large American company to remove its objectives to recruit more workers from under-represented groups, includes BBC News.
The decision to abandon the recruitment objectives of diversity, equity and inclusion comes after the company carried out an annual examination of its company policies.
The technology giant also examines some of its other Dei programs.
President Donald Trump and his allies regularly attacked Dei’s policies. Since his return to the White House just over two weeks ago, Trump has ordered government agencies to eliminate such initiatives.
“We are committed to creating a workplace where all our employees can succeed and have equal chances,” said a google spokesperson.
“We have updated our language (annual investor report) to reflect this, and as a federal entrepreneur, our teams also assess the changes required after judicial decisions and recent decrees on this subject.”
The story was reported for the first time by the Wall Street Journal.
Between 2021 and 2024, Google’s investor reports declared its commitment to “diversity, equity and inclusion of everything we do”. This line is not in its latest report, which was published on Wednesday.
In recent years, Google had been a frank supporter of Dei Targets, in particular after the murder of George Floyd in 2020 and the demonstrations that followed his death.
At the time, the director general of Google, Sundar Pichai, set a goal of five years to increase the number of its leaders from groups underrepresented by 30%.
According to the company, the number of blacks in leadership roles almost doubled between 2020 and last year. Google also said that it had seen an increase in women and Latinos among its leaders.
Google is the last large company to turn around on its diversity policies.
Meta, Amazon, Pepsi, McDonald’s, Walmart and others made their Dei programs go back.
Apple stood out by postponing this trend. Last month, the board of directors of the technology giant asked investors to vote against a proposal aimed at putting an end to its diversity policies.
The conservative group’s proposal, the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), called on the iPhone manufacturer to abolish its DEI policies, claiming that they exhibit businesses at “reputation and financial risks”.
Last week, the objective of the retail chain was pursued by a group of shareholders, led by the Police City of the Riviera Beach police in Florida, who said that the firm had frauds by hiding allegedly the risks associated with its dei policies.
The trial referred to a reaction in 2023 on LGBTQ + goods in its stores, which caused the decline in its sales and its stock market course.
The trial intervened after Target announced that he would end his Dei goals.
In the latest example of the Trump administration’s disapproval of these policies, the American president supposedly supposed last week, without testifying that Dei had led to an air accident in Washington DC.
The remarks, which intervened less than 24 hours after the accident, complies with the efforts of the White House to cancel such programs.
