Google adds to the long payroll of companies that abjurate diversity in hiring

Following the wake of many other companies that in recent months have substantially diminish their seas their diversity, equity and inclusion (Dei) policies, Google has decided to give folder to the diversity objectives for which it was governed until now for the hiring of personnel and has also decided to review some of his initiatives ofi.

After years adopting more inclusive policies (which they especially charged impulse after the murder of George Floyd in 2020), Many US companies (in particular those based in Silicon Valley) They are denying the diversity, equity and inclusion that once wrapped with pridea turn that is coinciding (in any way casual) with the return of Donald Trump to the White House.

After the media echoed the changes in their policies ofi, Google has come out to the foref Opportunities, and in the last year we have been reviewing our programs designed to help us achieve it ». “As a federal contractor, our teams are also evaluating the necessary changes after recent judicial decisions and executive orders on this subject”Add the Mountain View company in a statement.

In his annual reportthat Google consigned last Tuesday in the United States Stock Exchange and Securities Commission, the Internet giant omitted a line in which the following said: “In Alphabet, we commit ourselves to the fact that diversity, equity and inclusion are part of everything we already make a template that is representative of the users we serve.” That phrase, now eliminated, opened the way in the annual Google reports in the period between 2021 and 2023.

Dei programs are being curtaled for some months in the United States

Google has already communicated to its workforce that is reviewing the latest judicial decisions and executive orders of Donald Trump directed to the wings to the Dei policies in federal and government contractors.

In internal memorandum filtered by The Verge Fiona Cicconi, head of Human Resources of Google, makes, on the other hand, the following statements: «In 2020 we set contracting objectives focused on the growth of our offices outside California and New York for Try to improve representation in our template. In the future we will abandon those objectives ».

At the beginning of January Meta also reported his intention to liquidate his diversity, equity and inclusive programsn, including those related to recruitment, training and selection of suppliers.

Similarly, Amazon has also reviewed its programs directly related to representation and inclusion.

On the other side of the puddle the conservative groupswhose position was strengthened in 2023 by a judgment of the Supreme Court that ruled that the universities of the United States could not take into consideration the racial decompensation when admitting students in their classrooms, They have sentenced the dei programs vehement and have threatened to take the companies that implement them to court.

Just a month ago Elon Musk and other Donald Trump’s acolytes described those stumblingary programs when querying the serious fires that recently affected the city of Los Angeles.