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Google (Googl-7.81%) Apparently, it will stop setting up the employment goals historically underrepresented.
Technical DIV Wednesday has found in the e-mail to staff on Wednesday that will no longer place employment goals to improve the variety of workplace, Wall Street magazine (He+ 0.56%) reported. The company allegedly told staff to reconsider some of its diversity, capital and inclusion after recent court decisions and President Donald Trump Executive For the end of the DEI program in the Federal Government. Google told staff that “evaluation of changes in our programs needed to meet”, according to Wall Street Journal.
In the echo of the murder of George Floyd by the police in 2020. years, company Set the employment target Increase the share of “leading the representation of insufficient groups” on Google by 30% to this year.
“Listening to personal accounts of our Black Advisory Leadership Group and our Black + Google is just strengthened by our black communities face: the one where systemic racism permeates every aspect of living and capital, to health care, education and workplace”, said Chief Executive Director of the Alphabet of Sundar Pichai UA Memo for staffAccording to Wall Street Journal.
In the report on Wednesday, Google allegedly told staff would “continue to invest in countries across the United States in many countries around the world – but we will no longer have aspirational goals in the future.” Allegedly will have underrepresented staff still access to Google’s resources.
“We are committed to the creation of the workplace where all our employees can succeed and have equal opportunities, and during the last year we have reviewed our programs designed to help us get there,” Google spokesperson said in a statement divided with quartz. “We updated our 10-K tongue to reflect this as a federal contractor, our teams also assess changes needed after recent court decisions and executive orders on this topic.”
The company is joined by Cell’s Tech Giants Meta (Target+ 0.27%) and Amazon (Amzn-2.51%)who both made significant changes in the efforts of diversity. Target Turn off your Tim Diversity Last month, for example, with Janelle Gale, the vice president of human resources, speaking to employees to change the “legal and political landscape, capital and involvement efforts in the United States.”
Meanwhile, Google recently updated their principles ai In order to enable the company to work on military applications for AI.
Google said to implement “appropriate mechanisms for supervision over human, long attention and feedback to harmonize with users, social responsibility and widely accepted principles of international law and human rights.”
However, under his Previous AI PrinciplesGoogle explicitly said that “not followed” which can be used for applications such as “weapons or other technologies whose main purposes are or directly facilitate the technologies that collect or use the information for the offense of internationally accepted norms.” Change was first spotted by Washington Post.
2025-02-05 21:59:00