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Accenture has canceled its global goals of diversity and integration after the “evaluation” of the American political scene, becoming the latest large company to abandon its goals since the election of Donald Trump.
A memorandum of employees from CEO Julie Sweet said that the New York consulting group will start in “sunset” its qualitative goals in 2017, in addition to job development programs for “people from specific demographic groups.”
Sweet said in the memo on Thursday that the change follows “an assessment of our policies, internal practices and the advanced scene in the United States, including the recent executive orders that we must adhere to.”
Accenture, which uses 799,000 people all over the world, joins Meta, McDonald’s and Target to get rid of the goals of diversity, fairness and inclusion in response to the new political climate since Trump’s election.
The American president was strongly criticizing what he called “absolute ”
He signed a series of executive orders that cut off Federal DEI programs when he took office last month, and he benefited from the vein from companies’ tiredness of diversity goals.
Other companies, such as Costco and JPMorgan Chase, have reaffirmed their commitment while some re -evaluate their listing policies for the Trump era.
In 2017, Accessure set a goal that half of its employees would be women by the end of 2025. He set a goal for 25 percent of its administrative managers to be women by 2020, a goal that was later updated to 30 percent by 2025 at that time, 41 percent of its employees and 21 percent of administrative managers.
The group also set goals to represent ethnic minorities in its power operating in some countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom.
Swit, who took control of Accessure in 2019, was explicit in diversity.
In an interview posted on YouTube for Accenture in 2020, Sweet talked about the importance of a diverse workplace. In the interview, she said that adherence to diversity was “the right thing to do”, and that this accent would bear the leaders responsible for adhering to “clear goals.”
In a report published by the company that year and participated in Sweet, it was described as a “leader” in diversity and inclusion.
The report said: “Progress (on Dei) is not fast enough. Why do not companies reinforce more varied and inclusive, when the issue of work is enhanced in favor of the culture of equality every year? And why is the share of women in leadership positions still very low?”
In the memo of this week, Sweet said Dei’s goals, which she said would not be used to measure employee performance, and temporarily announced the provision of data to external diversity measure surveys awaiting evaluation.
She added that the group “will evaluate” other external partnerships on this topic “as part of updating our talent strategy.”
Sweet wrote in the memo: “We are always worthy,” he said, excavating Trump to ignore de’s policies in favor of a “community.” . . Based on merit.
The memo said that the goals of the group’s diversity “were largely achieved” and added that Accene will build a “comprehensive” workplace “free of bias” and “equal opportunities”.
Acceneture refused to comment.