People are freaking out over this, and it's a pretty bonkers thing to say. I have a competing hypothesis though. A lot of orgs mistakenly think they have a big

People are freaking out over this, and it's a pretty bonkers thing to say. I have a competing hypothesis though. A lot of orgs mistakenly think they have a big diversity attrition problem because minorities and women leave at greater rates. However, in practice, minorities and women leave at approximately the same rates as everyone normalized to levels in the org. It's just that low level people leave more frequently and the bulk of minorities are in low level positions, whereas the top half looks like a a bowl of milk. I think they did an analysis on who would get laid off, noticed minorities were vastly over-represented vs the whole population, and are trying to hedge here with some PR. I have no evidence for this.