Amazon is scaling back its DEI initiatives, the latest company to make cuts

Amazon is shrinking some of its business Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Software, becoming the latest major company to make cuts in such initiatives that critics deemed “woke.”

In a letter to employees last month, Candy Castleberry, Amazon’s chief human resources officer, announced updates to the company’s representation and inclusion efforts, saying… E-commerce giant Some changes will be made after spending the last few years “evaluating their effectiveness.”

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“We have worked to bring employee groups together under one umbrella, building programs that are open to everyone,” the memo obtained by FOX Business said. “Instead of individual groups building programmes, we focus on programs with proven outcomes – and we also aim to foster a truly more inclusive culture.”

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The release of the memo, first reported by Bloomberg on Friday, follows a report earlier in the day from The Information, showing that Amazon recently scrubbed sections titled Black Rights and LGBTQ+ Rights from the “Our Positions” page on its website. Website.

In response, Amazon spokeswoman Kelly Nantel said in a statement: “We update this page from time to time to ensure it reflects the updates we have made to various programs and situations.”

Amazon is the latest in a group of companies to back away from DEI initiatives in the past year, following its peer Retail giant WalmartAs well as Ford, Caterpillar, John Deere and Toyota. However, Amazon has been more subtle in its moves, unlike other companies like Meta, which announced sweeping changes to its DEI policies earlier on Friday.

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Robbie Starbuck, the anti-woke activist and filmmaker who led the successful campaign to pressure companies to end DEI initiatives, says he notified Amazon executives in December that he would report back on their “woke policies” unless they committed to making changes.

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“We will not stop until corporate America becomes sane again and embraces corporate neutrality on controversial issues,” Starbuck said. Fox Business. “It is not yet clear how far Amazon will go to embrace meritocracy, but we hope they will go far enough to refocus our reporting efforts elsewhere.”