I will be interested to see if Microsoft gets worse or better when Nadella decides to retire. If there’s anything left of it by then.
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It’s all about MSFT and has been for a while now. And, MSFT is doing great. Microsoft has always been about keeping business and consumers reliant on them. So, they’ll keep making themselves indispensable while squeezing out as much money as they can.
If they can drop DEI and keep the share price up, they will.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
"True systems-change work associated with DEI programs everywhere are no longer business critical or smart as they were in 2020," a leader of the team wrote in an email sent to thousands of employees, which was viewed by Business Insider.
The team leader, whose identity BI has confirmed, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Many technology companies, including Microsoft, made commitments to improve diversity efforts after the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer and the historic protests that followed.
Zoom laid off a DEI-focused team earlier this year, Bloomberg reported.
"Our D&I commitments remain unchanged," a Microsoft spokesperson, Jeff Jones, said in a statement.
Contact Ashley Stewart via the encrypted messaging app Signal (+1-425-344-8242) or email ([email protected]).
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