Microsoft Scales Back Diversity Reporting and Performance Review Requirements
By
Tom Warren
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Summary
Microsoft is scaling back its diversity and inclusion initiatives by discontinuing its annual diversity report and removing diversity as a companywide core priority for employee performance reviews. This change comes shortly after former President Donald Trump issued an executive order targeting DEI programs. The company had previously been publishing diversity data for over a decade and had made diversity reporting a requirement for performance reviews since 2019.
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Microsoft has been publishing data about the gender, race, and ethnic breakdown of its employees for more than a decade
Since 2019 it's been publishing a full diversity and inclusion report annually, and at the same time made reporting on diversity a requirement for employee performance reviews
just months after President Donald Trump issued an executive order to try and eradicate workforce diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives
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