Meta is ending several diversity programs, including its 'Diverse Slate Approach,' sparking criticism from employees.
Meta announced on Friday that it is ending several internal programs designed to increase the company’s hiring of diverse candidates. The changes, detailed in a memo by Meta ’s vice president of people, Janelle Gale, on the company’s Workplace internal communications forum, include the termination of the company’s ‘Diverse Slate Approach,’ which prioritized considering qualified candidates from underrepresented groups for open roles.
The company is also ending its diversity supplier program and its equity and inclusion training programs. Gale also announced the disbanding of the company’s diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, team, and said that Meta Chief Diversity Officer Maxine Williams will move into a new role focused on accessibility and engagement. Several Meta employees responded to Gale’s post with comments criticizing the new policy. “If you don’t stand by your principles when things get difficult, they aren’t values. They’re hobbies,” one employee posted in a comment that got reaction from more than 600 colleagues. The DEI policy change follows a number of sweeping policy reversals by the social media company this month. Last week, Meta replaced global affairs head Nick Clegg with Joel Kaplan, a veteran at the company with longstanding ties to the Republican Party. On Tuesday, Zuckerberg announced a new speech policy that included bringing an end to the company’s third-party fact-checking program.
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