Google scraps diversity-based hiring targets


FILE PHOTO The logo of Google LLC is shown on a building in San Diego California U.S. October 9 2024. REUTERSMike BlakeFile Photo

FILE PHOTO: The logo of Google LLC is shown on a building in San Diego, California, U.S., October 9, 2024. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo

(Reuters) -Alphabet's Google is scrapping its goal to hire more employees from underrepresented groups and is reviewing some of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, joining a slew of U.S. businesses scaling back diversity initiatives.

"In 2020, we set aspirational hiring goals and focused on growing our offices outside California and New York to improve representation," Fiona Cicconi, Alphabet's chief people officer, said in an email to staff on Wednesday, a copy which was reviewed by Reuters. "...but in the future we will no longer have aspirational goals."


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