Google is eliminating diversity targets in its hiring process and has begun an extensive review of the “risks” posed by the company’s DEI programs, marking a major pullback in the tech giant’s approach to workforce representation.
According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, the tech giant will no longer set specific targets for boosting minority representation in its workforce.
This marks a major shift away from Google’s 2020 pledge to raise the proportion of underrepresented groups in management by 30% within five years. Google made this commitment along with several other tech companies following the death of George Floyd and the subsequent riots.
In an email to employees, Google said it was reviewing diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts that “raise risk, or that aren’t as impactful as we’d hoped” and noted recent court decisions and executive orders by…
