Tech companies like Google and Meta made cuts to DEI programs in 2023 after big promises in prior years::After vocal commitments following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, DEI programs in the tech industry are in broad retreat.
Good. Hopefully people start realizing these programs do nothing. And that corporations only started them to help reduce lawsuits.
They were never started so workers could create real change from within. Curtailing them might help people finally see what they needed all along was collective bargaining.
The ownership class is fine with giving people the opportunity to talk. Talk is cheap. But they shit their pants if we stand together and unionize.
Come on. It was all performative horseshit from the get-go. In my org’s case, it’s quite obvious that all the DEI shit was toxic and counterproductive, with effects lasting until today, a year after we fired our disaster of a Chief Woke Officer and the fucking $600K consultants.
Were these programs effective? This article talks a lot about cuts to these but I couldn’t find anything about how impactful they were in achieving their goals.
To be clear, I agree that DEI is important, just curious how much these programs moved the needle.
Hardly. Statistics show very little regarding accomplishments. And in some cases have led to regression because the programs are poorly designed.
And that poor design is on purpose. They often push responsibility on the workers. Who have no agency to bring about actual change. While insulating owners/executives from lawsuits.
I don’t think the poor design is on purpose. They just literally don’t know what they’re doing. It’s not like they could have chosen from the centuries of DEI curriculum work, and they chose stupid systems out of malice. They’re making it up on the spot. And it’s poorly designed, hamfisted and patronizing. So let it die.
