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Accenture ditches diversity and inclusion goals
Chief executive Julie Sweet tells 799,000 staff decision was taken following ‘evaluation’ of US landscape
Accenture has scrapped its global diversity and inclusion goals after an “evaluation” of the US political landscape, becoming the latest big company to ditch its targets since the election of Donald Trump. Accenture, which employs 799,000 people around the world, joins Meta, McDonald’s and Target in ditching diversity, equity and inclusion goals in response to the new political climate since Trump’s election. In this week’s memo rolling back the DEI targets, Sweet said they would no longer be used to measure staff performance, and she also announced a pause on submitting data to external diversity benchmarking surveys pending an evaluation.
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