San Francisco – Google is fulfilling the goals of hiring some of its variety, which is being included in a long list of American companies, who have left or scaled their diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
The move, which was mentioned in an email sent to Google employees on Wednesday, came in view of an executive order issued by President Donald Trump, which was aimed at scrapping government contractors to scrap their Dei initiative.
Like many other major technical companies, Google sells some of its technology and services to the federal government, including its rapidly growing cloud division that is an important piece of its push in artificial technology.
Google’s original company, Alphabet also indicated a change in its annual 10 -K reports, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission this week. In this, Google removed a line included in the previous annual reports, stating that it is “diversity, committed to make equity, and whatever we do to include what we do and to increase a workforce. Representative we serve. ”
Most of the Google alphabet have an annual revenue of $ 350 billion and all for their workforce of 183,000.
Google said in a statement to the Associated Press, “We are committed to creating a workplace, where all our employees can succeed and get equal opportunities, and from the previous year we are reviewing our programs that we are reviewing our programs Designed to help reach there. ” “We have updated our 10-K language to reflect it, and as a federal contractor, our teams are also evaluating the necessary changes after recent decisions and executive orders on the subject.”
Google CEO Sundar Pichai and other leading technology officers – Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta platforms, Mark Zuckerberg and language changes also come a little more than two weeks after two weeks after two weeks. Is. ,
Meta jett its DEI program last month shortly before the inauguration, while Amazon stopped some of its DEI programs in December after Trump’s election.
Many companies outside the technology industry have also supported far from DII. These include Walt Disney Company, McDonald’s, Ford, Walmart, Target, Lowe and John Dere.
Trump’s recent executive order is believed to have threatened to impose financial restrictions on federal contractors for “illegal” DEI programs. If companies are found in violations, they may be subject to massive damage under the False claims of 1863. The law states that the contractors who make false claims to the government may be responsible for three times the loss of the government.
The order instructed all federal agencies to choose the goals of nine investigations of publicly trading companies, large non-profit institutions and nine investigations of other institutions, which form “illegal discrimination or preference”.
The challenge for companies is knowing which policies can decide in the Trump administration, “illegal”. Trump’s Executive Order “All discriminating and illegal preferences, mandate, policies, programs” and other activities of the federal government attempts to end, and to force the federal agencies, “Illegal private-field preferences, mandate, “Activities” to combat policies, programs and programs.
In both public and private sector, the initiative of diversity has covered several practices from doing payment equity studies to try to recruit minority groups and more members of women as employees.
Google, which is located in Mountain View, California, has tried to hire more people from underputed groups for more than a decade, but has carried forward those efforts in 2020 when George Floid’s police murdered in Miniapolis Had trigger an outrage for more social justice.
Shortly after Floid’s death, Pichai set a goal to increase the representation of underpared groups in the Mountain View, California, the company’s large -scale Asian and white leadership. Has not changed dramatically.
According to Google’s annual diversity report, the representation of black people led by the company increased from 2.6% in 2020 to 5.1% last year. For Hispanic people, the change was 3.7% to 4.3%. According to the company’s report, in the meantime, women’s share in leadership rolls increased from 26.7% in 2020 to 32.8% in 2024.
The number in Google’s overall workforce is not very different, including only 5.7% in black employees and 7.5% Latinian employees. According to the diversity report, two-thirds of people worldwide are made of men.