Accenture ditches diversity and inclusion goals

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Accenture has broken its global diversity and to include goals after the “evaluation” of the US political landscape, becoming the latest large company to sleep on their targets since Donald Trump.

Memorandum of CEO of Julie’s Sweet CEO, a listed advisory group in New York to start “bloodshed” variety The goals set for 2017, as well as career development programs “people of special demographic groups”.

Sweet prompts said that the change followed the assessment of “our domestic policy and practice and common landscape, including the latest executive orders, with which we must meet.”

Accenture, which works 799,000 people around the world, joined Meta, McDonald and Target Diversity, equity and inclusion (dei) goals In response to a new political environment in response to Trump’s election.

The US President has been severely criticized by what he calls “Absolutely “Discrimination” diversity, nonsense of equity and inclusion.

He signed a number of executive orders that cut federal DEI plans when he held a last month, knocking on diversity purposes corporate fatigue vein.

Other companies such as Costco and JPMorgan Chase reaffirmed their commitment while some reassess their inclusion policy For the Trump era.

2017 . At that time, 41% of his employees and 21% of leaders were women.

The group has set itself itself for the representation of ethnic minorities in the United States, Great Britain and South Africa.

As well as rolling targets that sweet said, it will no longer be used to measure staff work, emphasis will no longer provide data on the surveys of external diversity benchmarks.

The group “would also have to assess the” external partnership “as part of the” Strategy of Our Talent “,” he added.

Accenture refused to comment.