> More than being created to create jobs, I suspect things like ethics teams are mainly created for PR purposes, to make the company look good -- and in fact, t

> More than being created to create jobs, I suspect things like ethics teams are mainly created for PR purposes, to make the company look good -- and in fact, the "product" they are expected to produce are defenses against the company looking bad Definitely are positions invented by lawyers to provide a safe harbor to minimize corporate legal and PR liabilities while those PR liabilities are burning bright among the public. Practically to the minute that the public focus on DEI is distracted to whatever the “next thing” is you will see these positions start disappearing or absorbed into HR and some new position created to satisfy the optics and create a new safe harbor for the next thing.