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Accenture has abandoned its global objectives of diversity and inclusion after an “evaluation” of the American political landscape, becoming the last major company to abandon its objectives since the election of Donald Trump.
A CEO staff service note Julie Sweet said that the New York list consulting group would start “sunset” its diversity objectives set in 2017, as well as career development programs for “people specific demographic groups ”.
Sweet declared in the memo that the change had followed an “evaluation of our internal policies and practices and the evolving landscape in the United States, including recent decrees with which we must comply”.
Accenture, which employs 799,000 people around the world, joins Meta, McDonald’s and Target in the objectives of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in response to the new political climate since the election of Trump.
The American president was very critical of what he calls the “absolute Nonsense “of diversity, actions and” discriminatory “inclusion measures.
He signed a series of decrees by reducing the federal programs of I when he came into office last month, explaining a vein of business fatigue for diversity objectives.
Other companies, such as Costco and Jpmorgan Chase, have reaffirmed their commitment while some re -evaluate their inclusion policies for the Trump era.
In 2017, Accenture set a goal that half of its staff would be women by the end of 2025. He also set an objective for 25% of its managing directors to be women by 2020, a target that ‘She then updated at 30% by 2025. At the time, 41% of its employees and 21% of directors general were women.
The group has also set objectives for the representation of ethnic minorities in its workforce in the United States, the United Kingdom and South Africa.
In addition to reducing targets, which, according to Sweet, would no longer be used to measure personnel performance, Accenture would no longer submit data to the comparative analysis of external diversity.
The group “would also evaluate” external partnerships on the subject “as part of the refreshment of our talent strategy,” she added.
Accenture refused to comment.
