Accenture scraps diversity and inclusion goals, memo says Company will start ‘sunsetting’ goals it set in 2017 after an evaluation of changing US political landscape.
According to an internal memo sent by its CEO, Julie Sweet, seen by Reuters and also reported in the Financial Times, the company will start “sunsetting” the diversity goals it set in 2017, along with career development programmes for “people of specific demographic groups”.
Along with rolling back Accenture’s DEI targets – which Sweet said would no longer be used to measure staff performance – the company will pause submitting data to external diversity benchmarking surveys, the memo said.
Accenture joins a series of firms including Meta, Alphabet and Amazon that have scrapped their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) goals leading up to and after Donald Trump’s return to the US presidency.
Separately, the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, on Wednesday in a note to staff said the justice department would “investigate, eliminate, and penalise” illegal diversity programmes in the private sector.
