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Accenture has removed its global goals of diversity and inclusion after a “evaluation” of the US political landscape, becoming the latest major company to remove its goals since Donald Trump’s election.
A memorandum for headquarters by chief executive Julie Sweet said the New York -listed Counseling Group will begin “Sun” its goals of diversity set in 2017, as well as career development programs for people of specific demographic groups . ”
Sweet told the Memorandum that the change followed a “evaluation of our internal policies and practices and the evolutionary landscape in the United States, including the latest executive orders we have to agree with.”
Accenture, which employs 799,000 people around the world, joins Meta, McDonald’s and Target in the diversity, equality and inclusion gap (dei) goals in response to the new political climate since Trump’s elections.
The US president has been very critical of what he calls the “absolute insanity” of the “discriminatory” measures of diversity, equality and inclusion.
He signed a series of executive orders that cut dei’s federal programs when he entered the task last month, entering a way of corporate fatigue for the purposes of diversity.
Other companies, such as Costco and JPMORGAN Chase, have reaffirmed their commitment while some are reassessing their involvement policies for the Trump era.
In 2017, Accenture set an objective that half of its staff would be women by the end of 2025. He also set a goal for 25 percent of its leaders to be women by 2020, an objective that It was later updated to 30 percent by 2025. At that time, 41 percent of its employees and 21 percent of managing directors were women.
The group also set its own goals for representing ethnic minorities in its labor force in the US, UK and South Africa.
As well as supporting the objectives, which Sweet said will no longer be used to measure staff performance, Accenture would no longer present data on external diversity comparison surveys.
The group would also “appreciate” foreign partnerships on the topic “as part of our re -refresh strategy,” she added.
Accenture refused to comment.
