Investing in Inclusion: How DEI Initiatives Uplift Both Companies and Consumers

Investing in Inclusion: How DEI Initiatives Uplift Both Companies and Consumers

In mid-May, Verizon followed the course of over a dozen major U.S. companies in rolling back their diversity, equity and inclusion practices—eliminating DEI from key tenets of their operations, including erasing DEI references from training material, ending bonuses and goals related to increasing the percentage of women and minority workers, and downsizing their human resources department. However, companies like Verizon are part of the private …