Più della metà delle aziende del Regno Unito cambiano approccio al DEI a causa delle critiche di Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/30/more-than-half-of-uk-businesses-changing-strategy-on-ethical-policies-research-finds
di Sensitive_Echo5058
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It’s embarrassing how much we’re essentially a vassal state to the US these days. Just absorbing all their culture, from putting flags up everywhere to moaning about DEI (which isn’t even the term generally used here).
“The truth is that a drive for profit can significantly impact or impede ethical decision-making. Our research exposes a troubling reality: while businesses express commitment to doing the right thing, there’s still a significant gap between principle and practice. And even in the light of the Post Office scandal, we’re seeing some UK businesses abandon valuable ethical and moral initiatives in response to outside influence.”
It seems this is less about Trump or American influence but being driven by a realisation of the economic harms such initiatives can incur.
A private business that is profit driven will not care about the colour of it’s employees’ skin but whether they are capable of performing well in their respective roles. The staff members who will earn them the most money will therefore be selected for. If they are not, the business profit margins will be impacted, which is an equitable form of punishment.
In the public sector where the onus is on the taxpayer to fund employees’ salary, DEI initiatives are more prevalent. If the business is not performing well, “it’s only the taxpayer that pays the burden.” This allows underqualified employees to be selected for.
It’s also not realistic to socially engineer occupational demographics so that each group is represented by the specific percentage share of the population.
As an example, only 4% of the population are black. It’s not reasonable to expect the entirety of the 4% are highly competent and qualified workers. However, it is reasonable to expect a subset of this population are exceptionally capable. According to the latest census, 74% of the population are white British, and the same rules will be expected to apply.
However, already we can see the pool of talent to draw from is significantly bigger. It’s 51.8 million employees to 2.78 million or 18.7 white British people for every 1 black person.
For as long as DEI initiatives exist in employment contexts, it’s inevitable that this will have downstream effects on productivity because we are drawing from a much smaller pool of employees.
What wonderful news for all opposed to discrimination and hate politics.
Good news, people should not be looked at by the race glasses, rather than by merit.
I doubt it’s purely because of Trump. Businesses are probably realising it’s a pointless money pit.
Once the E turned from Equality to Equity, it all went to shit.
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Of course they are, anything that gives employers more power is going to be pursued were possible, and its not a great loss, most of the companies disowning it were probably just doing it for signalling reasons and not because they wanted to actually help people who in the past have been overlooked.
Where I work they just rebranded the term, nothing has actually changed.
If you want to get rid of DEI staff I believe the standard approach is to point out that the concept has been so well mainstreamed/integrated into operations that a bespoke role is no longer needed. Some crap like that will satisfy the board.
Trump and his followers receive moral and ideological nourishment from a society in a state of moral decay.
The ignorance around this is so depressing. Especially around education.
‘DEI’ in America has issues because deciding who is disadvantaged/underrepresented in the US is basically impossible due to the hap-hazard way states collect and store demographic data, and the variation in benefits, school types etc. So they invariably just go off race or gender, which doesn’t need proving.
In the UK we have some of the most comprehensive data sets in the world, we can assess free school meal data from every single school, we can measure every single postcode in metrics like household income, crime rate, progression to HE, healthcare outcomes, basically everything.
So any ‘DEI’ initiative (certainly within education) with even a modicum of planning in the UK, is tailored to those who have provably had additional educational challenges.
So, they’re indisputably a good and beneficial thing to do.
It’s been a nice few years where we haven’t had all the culture wars shite pushed down our throats. Noticed Kemi tries it every now and again and gets wildly ignored which is nice.
About time, literally no one voted for a government that introduced policy to discriminate against white men specifically due to their immutable characteristics.
Historical injustice or not, I don’t really feel like having my race and gender be deciding factors in whether or not I get a job or educational program etc.
I am in no way responsible for the acts of the past, as is no one alive. Therefore, I see myself as no way responsible for fixing it.
Damn, but then who will people blame when they can cant get corporate email jobs that they definitely deserve?
Can we stop getting interested in any of Americas dumb social battles