San Francisco (APP) – Google is eliminating some of its diversity -hiring goals, and is joining a long list of US companies who have abandoned their diversity, equity and joining programs Is measured.
The move was stated in an email sent to Google employees on Wednesday, in the context of this An executive order issued by President Donald Trump One of the aims was to pressure government contractors to eliminate their DEI measures.
Like many other major tech companies, Google sells some of its technology and services to the federal government, including its rapidly growing cloud division, which is an important part of its pressure in artificial technology.
Google’s primary company, the alphabet, also indicated the change in its annual 10-K report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission this week. In this, Google has removed a line included in the previous annual reports that states that “we are committed to the diversity, equity and participation of everything and to increase the manpower we serve Do. “
Google generates most of the annual income of the alphabet $ 350 billion and has almost all workforce around the world to 183,000.
Google said in a statement to the Associate Press, “We are determined to make a workplace where all our employees can succeed and have equal opportunities, and over the past year we are ready to help you get there Reviewing your programs. ” “We have updated our 10-K language to reflect it, and as a federal contractor, our teams are also examining the changes required following recent court decisions and executive orders on the subject.”
Google CEO Sunder Pachai and other prominent technology executives also come more than two weeks, with Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms, was also included. .
Method Did his DE program be jetmen last monthShortly before the inauguration, while Amazon stopped some of its DEI programs in December after Trump’s election.
Many companies outside the technology industry also withdrew from the DEI. These include Walt Disney Company, McDonald’sFor, for, for,. FordFor, for, for,. VotageTarget, loo and John Dear.
Trump’s recent executive order threatens to impose financial sanctions on federal contractors, which are believed to have a “illegal” DEI program. If companies face violations, they may be subjected to massive losses under the 1863 false claims Act. The law states that the contractors who make false claims to the government can make the government’s losses three times more responsible.
The order also directs all federal agencies to select the targets of up to 9 investigations of companies, large non -profit individuals and other entities that are DEI policies that are “non Legal discrimination or priority is “.
The challenge for companies is knowing that the Trump administration can decide which policies of the DII are “illegal”. Trump’s executive order “all discrimination and illegal priorities, mandate, policies, programs” and other federal government activities and federal agencies “illegal private sector priorities, mandate, policies, programs, programs and programs Efforts have been made to compete.
In both public and private sectors, diversity measures have covered various methods from conducting discrimination training and conducting salary equity studies in which efforts to recruit minority groups and women as employees as employees Efforts have been made.
Google, who is based in California’s Mountain View, has tried to hire more people from unmanned groups for more than a decade, but fasten these efforts after George Flied’s police murder in Manipolis in 2020 Done
Immediately after the death of Floyd, Pachai has achieved a goal to increase the representation of Mountain View, California, California, the company’s large -scale Asian and white -led non -led groups. After that, Google has moved ahead. The dramatic manner has not changed.
According to Google’s annual diversity, representation of black people led by the company increased from 2.6 % to 5.1 % in 2020. For Spanish people, the change was 3.7 % to 4.3 %. According to the company’s report, during this time, the share of women in the lead roles increased from 26.7 percent in 2020 to 32.8 percent in 2024.
Google’s overall manpower number is not much different, black employees include only 5.7 % and Latin employees 7.5 %. According to the diversity report, Google consists of two -thirds of manpower worldwide.
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Associated Press Business Reporter Alexandra Olson cooperated in this report.
