Amazon is now the newest firm to curb a few of its DEI applications, Bloomberg experiences, after Meta introduced that it, too, is ending its variety efforts earlier on Friday.
An inside memo that was despatched to staffers mentioned that the corporate was seeking to wind down outdated applications and supplies as a part of a evaluate of its present initiatives.
“Rather than have particular person teams construct applications, we’re specializing in applications with confirmed outcomes — and we additionally intention to foster a extra actually inclusive tradition,” Candi Castleberry, a senior human assets government, wrote within the memo.
Amazon joins firms like Meta and Microsoft which have began to reverse prior commitments to variety, fairness, and inclusion. The Information reported Friday that Amazon up to date its company web site to seemingly downplay DEI and in addition eliminated a publish from 2021 that expressed a give attention to DEI.
The information comes as tech firms — and their leaders — put together for an upcoming presidential administration that’s prone to be hostile towards DEI, based on Bloomberg.
