Salesforce has effectively eliminated the diversity hiring objectives. The company eliminated specific hiring objectives, including those that increased the representation of women and minority groups, and the term “diversity” of its latest annual report, presented on Wednesday.
The measure is produced immediately after a series of executive orders of President Donald Trump that asks for the elimination of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs throughout the federal government and the private sector. The company based in San Francisco is one of the largest software suppliers of the United States government.
A change in tone
Salesforce included a section entitled “Equality, Diversity and Inclusion” in previous annual reports to describe the initiatives aimed at building a more diverse workforce. Last year's presentation reaffirmed equality as a central value, emphasizing the company's commitment to foster an inclusive environment where employees could prosper.
However, the last report marks a change in tone. The section was called “equality”, with all references to the deleted initiatives. Instead of detailing diversity efforts, the company now highlights compliance with the laws of equal payment and antidiscrimination in its global operations. The last presentation presents equality as a matter of federal compliance, positioning legal adhesion as a basis for maintaining an inclusive workplace.
CEO Benioff has supported social problems
The Salesforce CEO, Marc Benioff, has long expressed social problems and expressed support for LGBTQ+employees. “If someone is coming after our employees and discriminating them in some way,” he told Axios last month, “we will do our best to help them.”
Benioff advocated a tax increase in San Francisco so that the city could finance initiatives to help the homeless, and threatened to withdraw Indiana investments after the State approved a law that allows anti-gay discrimination for religious reasons, Bloomberg reported.
Salesforce joins Amazon, Meta, Google, Target and Walmart, among other companies that have also delayed the initiatives ofi. Last week, Apple announced that you can adjust your DEI policies in response to changing legal measures and political. Several of Trump Dei's executive orders have been challenged in the Court.
