Google is scaling back its diversity hiring goals, joining a growing number of U.S. companies that are either abandoning or reducing their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. This shift follows a recent executive order by President Trump aiming to pressure government contractors into dropping DEI initiatives. The company stated they are 'evaluating changes required' following the executive order and court decisions. Google's parent company, Alphabet, also reflected this change in its annual filing, removing language about their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Google is scrapping some of its diversity hiring targets, joining a lengthening list of U.S. companies that have abandoned or scaled back their diversity, equity and inclusion programs.is scrapping some of its diversity hiring targets, joining a lengthening list of U.S. companies that have abandoned or scaled back their diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
FILE - Audience members gather at Made By Google for new product announcements at Google on Aug. 13, 2024, in Mountain View, Calif.Google's parent company, Alphabet, also signaled the shift in its annual 10-K report it filed this week with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The change in language also comes slightly more than two weeks after Google CEO Sundar Pichai and other prominent technology executives - including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg - stood behind Trump during his inauguration. Trump's recent executive order threatens to impose financial sanctions on federal contractors deemed to have "illegal" DEI programs. If the companies are found to be in violation, they could be subject to massive damages under the 1863 False Claims Act. That law states that contractors that make false claims to the government could be liable for three times the government's damages.
In both the public and private sector, diversity initiatives have covered a range of practices, from anti-discrimination training and conducting pay equity studies to making efforts to recruit more members of minority groups and women as employees.
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