US EditionBeyond the Backlash: What Evidence Shows About the Economic Impact of DEI
- Thousands of U.S. Workers specializing in diversity, equity, and inclusion jobs have faced significant layoffs and role reductions since early 2023 amid a shrinking job market.
- This widespread job loss results from a growing political backlash against DEI, including executive orders banning DEI in federal agencies and major companies ending related policies.
- Companies once expanding DEI teams now cut over 2,600 DEI positions, which comprised more than 20,000 roles by early 2023—double the number five years earlier, per Revelio Labs’ analysis.
- Experts warn that eliminating DEI functions will reduce workplace diversity and have long-term impacts, while DEI advocates emphasize its benefits for business performance and inclusion.
- The current climate creates uncertainty and difficulty for DEI professionals who often move into more generalist HR roles, forcing many to reflect on career paths amid a challenging, shrinking market.
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Race Quota Hidden in Health Act Ignites Fierce Opposition from NSW Libertarians · Caldron Pool
A Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) quota has been discreetly incorporated into the 1997 NSW Health Services Act. NSW Labor appeared to use a run-of-the-mill miscellaneous spelling corrections and grammatical adjustments procedure to hide the motion. Passed into law on Thursday, Section 26 (4A) now requires local health district boards to have “at least 1 person who [self] identifies as an Aboriginal person.” All you apparently need to do …
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are American Values
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are, in truth, deep American values. They're not partisan talking points. They are ethical commitments rooted in our national story. To argue against them is to turn away from the very principles that make us…
The Michigan Chronicle
Beyond the backlash: What evidence shows about the economic impact of DEI
Beyond the backlash: What evidence shows about the economic impact of DEI
The Conversation
Beyond the backlash: What evidence shows about the economic impact of DEI
DEI has a long history. Nora Carol Photography via Getty ImagesFew issues in the U.S. today are as controversial as diversity, equity and inclusion – commonly referred to as DEI. Although the term didn’t come into common usage until the 21st century, DEI is best understood as the latest stage in a long American project. Its egalitarian principles are seen in America’s founding documents, and its roots lie in landmark 20th-century efforts such as…
At NPR, DEI Job Cuts Crush 'People of Color,' Blue-Collar Work Just 'Romanticized'
As its own future comes under threat by the Trump administration, a juxtaposition on National Public Radio's homepage Tuesday (see photo) unwittingly showed just what kind of job losses NPR has sympathy for -- DEI woke-work, not the manufacturing jobs that actually involve making things, and which happen to employ many Trump voters. “Corporate America's retreat from DEI has eliminated thousands of jobs” is an expanded “digital feature” version o…
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