When Donald Trump arrived at the White House in 2017 and took his first measures against immigrants, thousands of Google employees mobilized against their decision and even co -founder Sergey Brin and the CEO, Sobal Pichai, directed a few words to the crowd. Eight years later, in the middle of Trump’s offensive and Republicans against diversity, equality and inclusion policies, the company has not endured the pulse. Alphabet, the Google group, has decided to eliminate its diversity goals from its contracting policies, according to Wednesday The Wall Street Journal. The company has also reviewed its practices of diversity, equality and inclusion in general, known for its acronym in English, Dei.
The company is the last to give in to the pressure of the Republicans, which has risen after Trump’s victory in the presidential ones on November 5. Although others have preferred to renounce them. Before, the leader of the Walmart distribution, the Meta Technology, the fast food chain McDonald’s and many other companies such as Tractor Supply, John Deere, Caterpillar and Molson Coors have given up those policies in all or part. Amazon, founded by Jeff Bezos, has also taken a step back on the matter.
Google said in a note to the employees quoted by Bloomberg that he was reviewing his programs and that he would no longer have “aspirational objectives” linked to the representation of minorities. In a statement sent to said agency, the company points out: “We are committed to the creation of a workplace in which all our employees can succeed and equal opportunities, and during the last year we have been reviewing our programs designed to help us get it ”. “As a federal contractor, our teams are also evaluating the necessary changes after recent judicial decisions and executive orders on this issue,” he adds.
The diversity, equality and inclusion policies were born in the heat of positive discrimination or affirmative action to favor infrarepresented minorities. Its application shot with #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements, even more after the murder by the George Floyd police, which was an aldabonazo for the search for racial justice. It was then that Google set the objective of increasing the proportion of “leadership representation of infrarepresented groups” by 30% by 2025.
However, after conservative groups they began to file demands against companies with DEI policies. That was united last year the pressure from the social networks of some activists, among which the most prominent is Robby Starbuck, and that of the Republican party, with Donald Trump to the head.
Trump on his first day in office. The president ordered the “termination of all discriminatory programs, including the mandates, policies, programs, preferences and illegal activities of DEI and ‘diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility’ (DEIA) in the federal government, under any name that appear ” Immediately
Alphabet has suppressed “in Alphabet, we commit ourselves to the fact that diversity, equity and inclusion are part of everything we already make a template that is representative of the users we serve.” The phrase had been repeated every year since the annual report of 2020. in the published on Tuesday,
Apple’s council has recommended, presented by the National Center for Public Policy Research. “The proposal is unnecessary, since Apple already has a well -established compliance program and the proposal tries to restrict Apple’s ability to manage its own ordinary commercial operations, people and equipment, and commercial strategies; And our Board of Directors and management maintain active supervision of legal and regulatory risks and compliance with our global business, ”he argues.
