Accenture ditches diversity and inclusion goals

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Since the election of Donald Trump has become the latest largest organization to excavate his target, the accentor has canceled its global diversity and inclusion goals after an “evaluation” of US political landscapes.

Chief Executive Julie Sweet Memor said that the New York-list consulting team would start “sunset” Diversity The goals were set in 2017, as well as carrier development programs for “people of specific population groups”.

Sweet memo said that this change was followed by “evaluating our internal policies and practices and we must comply with recent executive orders with landscapes developed in the United States”.

Accentor, which appoints 799,5 people around the world, joins and noticed with Meta, McDonalds Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) goals In response to new political weather since Trump’s election.

The US president has been highly criticized to what he says to him “Absolute The “discriminatory” diversity, equity and inclusion arrangements are bad.

He signed a multiple executive order to cut Federal DII programs when he arrived in the office last month, taping the veins of corporate fatigue for diversity goals.

Other companies such as Costo and Zepmorgan Chase, re -confirmed their promise and have some To re -evaluate their inclusion policies For the Trump era.

In 2017, the Accentor set a goal that half of her workers would be a woman in the end of 2025. It has also set a goal to become a woman by 2020 for 25 percent of its managing directors, after a goal it was updated to 30 percent by 2025. At that time, 41 percent of the employees and 21 percent were the managing director.

This group set a goal for the representation of ethnic minority in its workforce in the United States, the United Kingdom and South Africa.

In addition to returning the goals, which was sweet that the staff would no longer be used to measure the effectiveness of the staff, the accentor would no longer submit data to the external diversity benchmarking survey.

He added that this group will “evaluate” the external partnership on this topic “as part of our talent strategy”.

Accentor refused to comment.