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It's sorta remarkable how in the span of a few months the pendulum has swung back. It shows that companies do not lead trend, so much as follow them.
by paulpauper 2y ago
It's sorta remarkable how in the span of a few months the pendulum has swung back. It shows that companies do not lead trend, so much as follow them.
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoI thought the main problem was Trump promising to legally go after DEI programs from both public and private employers?
- Grosvenor 2y agoI was about to post roughly this comment. It may not be that companies don't believe in DEI. It might be they're just afraid of the Trump-hammer if they keep their DEI program. Check back later to see if they've stealth kept most of the DEI stuff. Basically they can pull a trump here - Make a lot of noise, then quietly reverse themselves without mentioning it.
- yladiz 2y agoTrump says a million things, and the possibility that a company would actually have legal issues with DEI is low to possibly zero, so it's very unlikely due to that and much more likely due to wanting to follow the political trend (due to internal politics and shareholder push). If companies truly were afraid of legal action you wouldn't have ones like Costco bucking the trend and not changing their policies after their shareholders continue to support DEI.
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoI don’t know. Reading the article, it also mentioned that this was an executive order affecting all federal contractors. Costco I don’t think is.
- anothercoup 2y ago[flagged]
- regularjack 2y agoWe will never know because that who or what doesn't exist.
- insane_dreamer 2y ago> how quickly DEI spread everywhere where have you been? DEI programs have been common for decades -- just usually called "diversity" rather than "diversity equity inclusion" which is a more recent term
- AlotOfReading 2y agoAnd before diversity it was called equal opportunity. Companies like IBM have "DEI" policies older than most people alive today.
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