Certain companies, products, and institutions become so deeply ingrained into the culture that their name becomes a generic – “aspirin,” for example, or when people refer to Kleenex brand to mean “tissues.”
For internet search engines, Google has also done so. It’s a common refrain, when someone asks a question, for the reply to be “Google it.” But as a tech company, one based in California’s San Francisco Bay Area at that, Google the company has not escaped all of the leftist fads that have infected many tech organizations – like Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) practices. But now, Google may be officially ending its DEI hiring practices and training programs.
Google officially began the process of unwinding the company’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs on Friday, a source familiar with the company’s decision-making told Fox News Digital.
The tech giant announced in a February company memo that they were discontinuing their diversity goals of hiring more employees from “underrepresented groups,” and was analyzing whether their other initiatives were in compliance with President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting DEI in the public and private sector.
Google is now ending their “equity and inclusion employee trainings that the company previously conducted,” per the source.
Now, a caveat: Google is not an arm of government, and their hiring and training practices are up to the company’s management and its Board of Directors. With that said, their seeming abandonment of DEI practice is not only a good idea; it may well save them from some headaches concerning any contracts they have with the federal government.
Google still, it seems, retains their former “Head of Diversity.” […]
— Read More: redstate.com
