Meta employees usually vote for the questions that management should solve at the company’s plenary session. Some of the most selected questions ahead of the scheduled meetings on Thursday were related to Dei. However, Meta Leadership told employees that according to one of the employees, the employee said that the popularity of certain questions will no longer be guaranteed by the company leadership. The New York Times reported the change before.
Many US companies, including the technology industry, have removed the mention of diversity goals and programs in the annual submission as the public’s criticism of the initiative has increased due to the form of civil lawsuits and the pressure of activist investors. When President Donald Trump returned to the White House this month, retailers, restaurants, manufacturers and technology developers announced a new cut.
Trump repeatedly criticizes the DEI policy and programs and calls “ridiculous” and “discriminatory”. After taking office on January 20, Trump moved quickly to end the DEI program at the federal government.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been trying to warm up a cold relationship with the president over the past few months. On Wednesday, Meta and Trump agreed to resolve the lawsuit that Trump filed for the temporary suspension of his user account after the National Assembly’s rebellion on January 6. META has agreed to pay about $ 25 million, and most of the funds have agreed to head toward Trump’s future presidential library, the Wall Street Journal reported. A meta spokesman Dani Lever confirmed the reported report. Trump’s lawyer in this case did not respond to the request.
Zuckerberg applauded the president on Wednesday, but did not recognize an agreement on the quarterly earnings request. “We are proud of our major companies, prioritize US technology, and have a US administration to defend our values and attention abroad.” “And I am optimistic about progress and innovation that can relax.”
In meta, the effect of the Dei cut can be partially destroyed. The company is directly familiar with the change, according to a former meta employee, the company is trying to trim for a while behind the stage. “It was a slow and painful death,” they say. After the murder of George Floyd in 2020, Sheryl Sandberg’s chief operating officer led the company’s promise to diversity, including internal civil rights audit. In the 2022 Diversity Report, META pointed out that since 2019, the number of women and black employees has doubled as part of the goal of diversity.
With the support of Sandberg, the former Meta staff says, “There was this huge energy to change this big energy.” But in July 2022, SANDBERG announced that the company started out of everyday operation. At the same time, Tech Giant announced that it began to identify the team during the upcoming widespread dismissal. The final cut influenced about 11,000 people, and the former employee insisted that it was the first blow to META’s diversity.
