Disclaimer: I don't know much about how DEI initiatives work in corporate America to have any opinion if they are good or bad, so bear with me as I'm not passing judgment.
Is this movement of corporations in America to publicly talk about their DEI policies/initiatives being gutted (or at least "changed") a reaction to the public against those getting more vocal, and with seemingly more power, or is there something deeper wrong with them?
Tickled my curiosity after seeing a few articles about different CEOs talking about scrapping those policies, think I've seen 2 articles today about it: Microsoft and now John Deere. Believe I've seen at least another 1-2 the past weeks/months.
>Is this movement of corporations in America to publicly talk about their DEI policies/initiatives being gutted (or at least "changed") a reaction to the public against those getting more vocal, and with seemingly more power, or is there something deeper wrong with them?
They did it because the people asked for it, now they're removing the same policies because the people have asked for it. The political winds are changing.
It's political. This is Deere doing conservative virtue signaling at a time when politics is on every American's mind. Deere's customers tend to be very conservative so that makes sense.
No idea about Microsoft. It's a many-minded company that's constantly blundering and working against its own purposes, so it's hard to tell what's meaningful signal there.
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Tickled my curiosity after seeing a few articles about different CEOs talking about scrapping those policies, think I've seen 2 articles today about it: Microsoft and now John Deere. Believe I've seen at least another 1-2 the past weeks/months.
They did it because the people asked for it, now they're removing the same policies because the people have asked for it. The political winds are changing.
No idea about Microsoft. It's a many-minded company that's constantly blundering and working against its own purposes, so it's hard to tell what's meaningful signal there.