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Accenture has become the latest large company since the Donald Trump election, discarding the world diversity and inclusive goals after the “evaluation” of the US political environment.
Julie Sweet’s notes for the staff of the chief executives of the Julie Sweet said that the consulting group listed in New York said that it will begin to “sunset” the diversity goals set in 2017 and the career development program for the people of the specific population statistics group. .
Sweet said in a Thursday note that “we followed our internal policies and practices and changes in the evolving environment of the United States, including the recent administrative orders we must comply with.”
Accenture, which employs 799,000 people around the world, has joined the META, McDonald’s and Targeting Diverity, Equity and Contrusion in response to the new political environment after the Trump election.
The president of the United States was very critical of what he called. “pure The ridiculous sound of “discriminatory” dei measurement.
He signed a series of administrative orders to cut the Federal DEI program last month and used the veins of corporate fatigue for diversity goals.
Other companies, such as COSTCO and JPMORGAN Chase, reaffirmed their promises while re -evaluating the inclusion policy for the Trump era.
In 2017, Accenture set a goal that half of employees would be women by the end of 2025. In addition, by 2020, 25 %of the management directors set a goal to become a woman, which was later updated to 30 %by 2025. At that time, 41 %of employees and 21 %of the managers were women.
The group also set a minority representative goal in some countries, such as the United States and the United Kingdom.
Sweet, who caught reins at Accenture in 2019, represented the previous diversity.
In an interview posted on the 2020’s YouTube channel, Sweet talked about the importance of various workplaces. In an interview, she said that the devotion to diversity was “right”, and the accent said that leaders were responsible for sticking to “clear goals.”
That year, in a report published by the company and co -written by Sweet, she was described as a “leader” of diversity and inclusiveness.
The report said: “Dei is not fast. Why is the company more diverse and comprehensive when there is a reinforcement of business cases in favor of equality culture every year? And why is the ratio of women in leadership position so low? ”
In a note that rolls back the Dei goal in this week’s memo, Sweet said it would no longer be used to measure employee performance. In addition, the company announced a pause to submit data to the external diversity benchmarking survey.
The group also added that it would “evaluate” other external partnerships on the topic “as part of our talent strategy.”
Sweet wrote in the memo, saying, “We’ve always called Mary Talk.” . . Depending on the advantages ”.
The memo added that the group’s diversity goals were “achieved” and Accenture would build a “comprehensive” workplace with “not escaped from prejudice” and “equal opportunities”.
Accenture refused to comment.
