Has corporate DEI peaked or are we just seeing a lull at the moment? The answer to that depends on who you ask. Yesterday the Congressional Black Caucus released a report on DEI initiatives at Fortune 500 companies.
The report released Monday offers guidelines to corporations on the best practices to adopt to advance diversity, equity and inclusion policies in the workplace and calls on companies to recommit to advance racial justice in the workplace…
“In the wake of the death of George Floyd, corporations pledged $50 billion to racial equity and strengthening DEI policies,” said Rep. Steven Horsford, D-Nev., chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, in an interview. “DEI is now under attack, but the response from corporate America has been overwhelming.”
The report was based on a survey the CBC carried out but it’s fair to say this wasn’t a professional poll so much as a…
