(Reuters) -The Accenture has eliminated its world -wide variety and inclusion goals after evaluating US -changing political landscape, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters on Friday.
The company will start “sunset” the variety goals it set in 2017, along with career development programs for “people specific demographic groups”, said the Memo from CEO Julie Sweet.
Large Meta, alphabet and Amazon technology companies are among a series of companies that scraped their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) goals leading to and on the return of Republican Donald Trump to the US presidency.
Sweet said that change of Accenture's policy follows “an evaluation of our internal policies and practices and the evolutionary landscape in the United States, including recent active orders that we must comply with”.
Since taking up his post on January 20, Trump has announced a number of executive orders with the aim of dismantling DEI programs across the federal and private sector government.
Besides, the Attorney General said why Bondi on Wednesday in a note for staff that the Justice Department would “investigate, eliminate, eliminate, and penalize” illegal diversity programs in the private sector.
Along with Dei Rolling Back Accenture targets – which Sweet said it would no longer be used to measure staff performance – the company will delay submitting data to external diversity benchmarking surveys, the memo said.
He would also evaluate external partnerships on the subject “As part of the renewal of our talent strategy”, said Sweet at the Memo.
In line with the goals set in 2017 and 2020, women currently account for 48% of the Accenture workforce and 30% of the Roles of Managing Director, according to its latest annual report.
The company, which hires extensively from India, also announced the goals of race and ethnicity for the US and UK in 2020.
Other media outlets were first to report the development.
The institutional shareholder services of a proxy advisory company recommended that Apple investors vote against a proposal to consider removing the iPhone manufacturer's DEI policies.
(Reported by Rishi Kant and Akash Sriram in Bengaluru; edited by Devika Syamnath and Maju Samuel)