Watching businesses cave and grovel and throw minorities under the bus and betray their workforces and professed “values” in a matter of weeks is a clarifying experience
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And no one said it was solely on men.
But the silence of men while women are literally being erased from history at NASA and the military, is defening. And sobering. And when I remark on the defeaning silence, your first impulse is to defect blame on women. And I bet you are one on the good ones
I have tried to remove myself from all I can and that’s all we can do but stuck in Apple ecosystem however they not dropped equality policies and all Cook has done was to pay the fee Trump wanted .. meanwhile Google here and there totally dropped Mexico
Culture.
To wear your heart on your sleeve.
To get down on the dancefloor. To be human.
Those are business guru ideas. A business needs a purpose beyond the bottom line.
Yet few embraced this.
Government is even more.
We allow them to govern for us.
They serve us.
This has been forgotten.
Dangerous
For boardrooms DEI is and was a shield to protect the company from discrimination claims, a necessary expense.
Keeping DEI policies in place will put them in the crosshairs of a President with 50%+ approval. One Tweet, one aside in an interview, one mention from the WH podium can destroy them.
Why are people trying to frame this as corporations being forced to do something they don't want to do?
They see where the wind is blowing and they think they will make more money sailing that way, and they feigned inclusiveness because they thought that was where the money was at before.
This would be less difficult with an understanding that the starting point is returning profit. That's the core principle for any commercial enterprise. Throughout corporate history we have seen that businesses have to be regulated into good behaviour. It's naive to see it any other way.
Quite. A business's real purpose emerges in a crisis. Protecting short-term profitability and shareholder returns remains pervasive. Those who see the threat of this coup, or understand how inclusion drives their success don't fold, and take shareholders with them
Is it that much of a surprise? I've always thought most of these businesses were only ever interested in making their own profit and would do whatever they could to achieve it whether that was pro diversity or anti diversity. I agree it's surprising though how quickly they switched.
I work for a US IT company. We had an "All hands" meeting this week. Was notable that though they didn't mention Trump or these changes in other places, they did stress the importance of their DEI policies.
It's alright. It's corporate training, so broad brush and hard to immediately apply it to your own situation. I'm not a manager, or involved in interviews, and I work from home. It's rare that DEI ever comes into play on a video call, other than don't call out people who don't share video.
Ive always thought corporate values were a load of shit. And treated having to hear about them as such. End of the day, if getting shot of you can make the people at the top a little bit more money youre cooked baybe
It will be a measure of society whether people choose to boycott these businesses for what they’ve done or turn a blind eye and carry on. I’d like to see businesses fall for taking backwards steps but I doubt it’ll happen. Money talks.
With some honourable exceptions, you sort of know that many employers would love to go full 'Matthew & Sons' if they could.
Out: Investors In People; Long Hours Directive; Maternity Pay; Sick Pay; Trades Unions; Collective Bargaining
In: 0 Hours contracts; Fire & Rehire; discriminatory practices.
The “DEI” policies were TAX breaks paid if HR could hire minorities—ALL kinds counted in that initiative originally created to increase Black Americans with real skills to the workforce by ignoring insidious bias. Sixty years later Dayquan still ain’t getting that job cause they SOUND Black
It's always been bollocks. Instead of making large-scale changes, just hire a DEI officer, sustainability consultant etc. They can easily be let go once the zeitgeist changes.
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Just to add sorry, my heart is with all of you who are in America
But the silence of men while women are literally being erased from history at NASA and the military, is defening. And sobering. And when I remark on the defeaning silence, your first impulse is to defect blame on women. And I bet you are one on the good ones
Reminder that where we spent our dollars matter.
To wear your heart on your sleeve.
To get down on the dancefloor. To be human.
Those are business guru ideas. A business needs a purpose beyond the bottom line.
Yet few embraced this.
Government is even more.
We allow them to govern for us.
They serve us.
This has been forgotten.
Dangerous
Only the big ones who've jumped on the bandwagon or those who've always wanted to regress and are openly declaring it now they feel they can.
Still pretty grim though.
Keeping DEI policies in place will put them in the crosshairs of a President with 50%+ approval. One Tweet, one aside in an interview, one mention from the WH podium can destroy them.
They see where the wind is blowing and they think they will make more money sailing that way, and they feigned inclusiveness because they thought that was where the money was at before.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/pamdanziger/2025/01/24/costco-shareholders-overwhelmingly-support-companys-dei-policies-as-other-major-retailers-retreat/
By standing up to demagogues such as Trump and Musk, you begin to emasculate them and inspire others to do the same. It will not end well.
Out: Investors In People; Long Hours Directive; Maternity Pay; Sick Pay; Trades Unions; Collective Bargaining
In: 0 Hours contracts; Fire & Rehire; discriminatory practices.