Alphabet Google is discarding its goal of hiring more employees of underrepresented groups and is reviewing some of its initiatives for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), joining a series of US companies that reduce diversity initiatives.
“In 2020, we established aspiration hiring objectives and focused on growing our offices outside California and New York to improve representation,” said Fiona Cicconi, director of people from Alphabet, in an email to the staff on Wednesday, a copy that was reviewed by Reuters. “… But in the future we will no longer have aspirational objectives.”
Google had been among the most vocal companies by pressing more inclusive policies following the protests against the police murders of George Floyd and other black Americans in 2020.
In 2020, the Pichai CEO established the objective of having 30% more of its leaders of underrepresented groups by 2025. At that time, around 96% of the American leaders of Google were white or Asians, and 73% at the level at level World Cup was men.
In 2021, it began to evaluate the executive performance on the diversity and inclusion of the team after an outstanding artificial intelligence research said that the company dismissed her abruptly after she criticized her diversity efforts. Google’s diversity director, Melonie Parker, said in a 2024 interview with BBC that the company had reached 60% of its five -year objectives.
On Wednesday, an alphabet spokesman said the company had no updated figures regarding Pichai’s objectives.
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That statement appeared in annual reports from 2021 to 2024. The spokesman said that the line was eliminated to reflect his review of the DEI programs.
“This is a real attack on the profits that workers have achieved in the technology industry through movements that fight against racism, gender and LGBTQ discrimination, which returns to the civil rights movement. This is part of a worrying right, anti-anti-anti- The workers’ trend develops within the technology companies that Awu (Alphabet World Union) undertakes to fight, “said Parul Koul, a software engineer and president of the union, in a statement .
Federal Contractor
Google, who sells cloud computing and other services to the United States government, also said he was reviewing the changes in President Donald Trump’s policies with the aim of stopping Dei in the Government and among federal contractors.
“Because we are a federal contractor, our teams are also evaluating the changes in our necessary programs to meet the recent judicial decisions and the executive orders of the United States on this issue,” Cicconi said in email.
The company will keep groups of internal employees such as “Trans on Google”, “Googler Black Network” and the “Disability Alliance”, which the company has said to inform decisions about products and policies.
The Wall Street Journal first reported Wednesday about the memorandum.
The goal platforms of Facebook parents said in January in an internal memorandum that was finishing their DEI programs, including those to hire, train and choose suppliers.
Amazon also said he was “writing obsolete programs and materials” related to representation and inclusion, in a note to his employees, seen by Reuters.
The conservative groups, fortified by a ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States of 2023 that invalidated an affirmative action in university admissions, have sentenced dei programs and have threatened litigation against companies that implement them.
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