DEI Layoffs

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Many technology companies, including Microsoft, made commitments to improve diversity efforts after the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer and the historic protests that followed.

In 2020, Microsoft pledged to double the number of Black leaders within the company by 2025.

Despite those commitments, many tech companies have appeared to retreat somewhat from diversity efforts. Zoom laid off a DEI-focused team earlier this year, Bloomberg reported. Google and Meta also cut DEI programs last year, according to CNBC.

Ashley Stewart
July 15, 2024
Internal Microsoft Email Shows DEI Leader Blasting Layoffs – Business Insider

I don’t know the numbers for my company, but I do know that every single one of the people I knew who were working on DEI stuff, even occasionally, are no longer employed as of the last layoff.

We live in interesting times.

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8 thoughts on “DEI Layoffs

  1. When my company started its DEI efforts, they polled the company for what Employee Engagement Groups they should create. To at least one executive’s consternation, one of the four ESGs was Veterans. They hadn’t yet found the right DEI director. Meanwhile the ESGs were left to their own devices to organize themselves.

    I was voted vice-president of the Veteran’s ESG. The elected President, after visiting and collabing with some of the others, made the statement, “This is the only ESG that isn’t full of victims.”

    And that’s how we ran it. The Veteran’s ESG always positioned itself to company leadership as “How we are an advantage to [company]”. That included personal contacts from our service days, abolity to recruit more, those recruits having advantages with regard to security clearances, leadership, and the fact that no day at this company could ever be our worst day.

    We got no support, but to be fair, I know someone that was on the Pride ESG that said similar.

    Then the ESG director was hired, and the ESG leads weren’t elected any more, but appointed. There was a lot if talk of “allyship”, as if veterans needed that. So I stopped paying attention to it.

  2. I’ll start cheering when this trend extends into the medical profession.

  3. I see two possible trends, the first is the DEI is simply out of season, like pride month merch on July 1. DEI was a response to the 2020 riots 4 years ago. The other possibility is that the private sector has discovered DEI costs them lots of money between highly paid race grifters, poorly performing diversity hires, and the occasional boycott.

  4. From what I can tell, in the government (at least the R&D side of things) it’s doing the opposite of fading away.

    In both internal and external calls for proposals, for instance, there are more and more sections dedicated to how the project is going to address, improve and increase diversity, including demanding detailed plans. This is true on calls at all levels, ranging from the very small (few hundred thousand dollars). Incidentally, that means less space is available, given a fixed page count, to actually talk about the science being proposed.

    Note 1: By external calls, I mean calls from entities outside the R&D center, e.g. from DOE. Internal calls are for things like LDRD proposals, which the R&D center itself will review and fund internally.

    Note 2: A few hundred thousand dollars sounds like a lot. It isn’t; a person making $50k a year can cost the proposal $150k or more, depending on overhead rates. So that few hundred $k goes very quickly. We can talk about what such overhead rates imply if anyone’s interested.

  5. And I know that George Floyd died of a massive overdose. Nothing that poor police officer did or didn’t do had anything to do with his death.

    They lie. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. And yet they keep on lying.

  6. DEI is meant to cause division and strife. It’s meant to destroy the society that is stupid enough to use it.
    Everybody knows that. Nobody wants a doctor that was that was made so because he’s black. Right? Nobody.
    The only question is; how many have to die before we say, F–k that?
    And now we get to feel how propaganda works.
    Everyone knows it’s a lie, everyone feels powerless to stop it.
    DEI is just an IED planted by elitist terrorists.
    It should be treated as such.

  7. It should be no surprise that DEI is expanding in government. They have no exposure to the consequences of bad programs and bad management. Government, at all levels, will ALWAYS get the money that is WANTED, which will ALWAYS exceed the money that is NEEDED. The free market sector however faces accountability every day and unless there are some very deep pockets that don’t care about performance or a company soul that is already sold to the government, the day of reckoning is not far off. That is why it is dying off. The business of business IS business no matter how outsiders may try to spin things.

  8. +1 for McChuck. I assume we are talking about Ashley Stewart the leftist reporter rather that the fashion company for land whales. But has anyone seen them in the same room.

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