Get rid of the qualitative and inclusive goals

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Accenture has canceled its global goals of diversity and integration after the “evaluation” of the American political scene, becoming the latest large company to abandon its goals since the election of Donald Trump.

A memorandum of employees from CEO Julie Sweet said that the New York consulting group will start in “sunset” its qualitative goals in 2017, in addition to job development programs for “people from specific demographic groups.”

Sweet said in the memo that the change followed “evaluating our internal policies, practices and the advanced scene in the United States, including modern executive orders that we must adhere to.”

Accenture, which employs 799,000 people all over the world, joins Meta, McDonald’s and TARGET to get rid of the goals of diversity, fairness and integration (DEI) in response to the new political climate since Trump’s election.

The American president was strongly criticizing what he called “absolute Nonsense “from the measures of diversity, shares and comprehensiveness” discriminatory “.

He signed a series of executive orders that cut off Federal DEI programs when he took office last month, and he benefited from the vein from companies’ tiredness of diversity goals.

Other companies, such as Costco and JPMorgan Chase, have reaffirmed their commitment while some re -evaluate their listing policies for the Trump era.

In 2017, Accessure set a goal that half of its employees would be women by the end of 2025. He set a goal for 25 percent of its administrative managers to be women by 2020, a goal that was later updated to 30 percent by 2025 at that time, 41 percent of its employees and 21 percent of administrative managers.

The group also set goals to represent ethnic minorities in its power operating in the United States, the United Kingdom and South Africa.

In addition to the retreat from the goals, which Sweet said it will not be used to measure employee performance, Accenene no longer provides data to the external measurement polls of diversity.

She added that the group “will evaluate” external partnerships on this topic “as part of updating our talent strategy.”

Acceneture refused to comment.