Google has significantly rolled back its diversity and inclusion initiatives in an apparent effort to avoid being perceived as anti-conservative, according to 8 current and former employees.
against using blanket statements about categories of people, such as about employees in certain racial groups.
After the Breitbart article that summer, a raft of changes aimed at reducing the diversity and inclusion work ramped up across the entire company, according to three current and former employees. Even talking about the issue of diversity at work became strained, four sources said. “Google has never shied away from using the word diversity. We have always used that word. We are not directing anyone not to use this word anymore,” said Parker, who added she could not comment on specific employee matters.
“If companies try to avoid addressing problems by banning certain words and reducing D&I work, it's just going to get worse, not better,” said Ellen Pao, the former CEO of Reddit and executive director of the advocacy group Project Include, which aims to increase diversity within the tech industry. “You cannot build a company culture by focusing on avoiding litigation.”Parker said diversity and inclusion efforts have not been reduced, but rather have “scaled up.
“In order to scale globally, we have to make sure that we have a partner that is able to do that at scale, and unfortunately internally we don’t have the global resources to build that capability across the size of our company,” Parker said. “So we needed to co-create with partners who specialize in scaling these programs globally across the world.”
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