Meta employees usually vote, to which questions management should answer at meetings throughout the company. Before such a meeting scheduled for Thursday, several profits were most often associated with Dei. But the finish line of leadership informed employees that the popularity of a specific question no longer guarantees that according to one of the employees, the company’s management will answer it. Fresh York Times earlier Reported Change.
Many American companies, including in the technology industry, Removed mentions goals and programs of diversity in their annual reports about a year ago among the growing public criticism of initiatives in the form of civil processes and pressure from investor activists. The fresh round of Cutback was announced by retailers, restaurants, producers and developers when President Donald Trump returned to the White House this month.
Trump repeatedly criticized Dei’s policies and programs, calling them “nonsense“And” discriminatory “. After inaugurating January 20, Trump quickly moved to the end of Dei programs in agencies throughout the federal government.
Mark Zuckerberg, the general director of Meta, tried to hot up his once Florida relations with the president over the past few months. On Wednesday, Meta and Trump reached an agreement on the resolution of the claim in which Trump filed a transient suspension of his user’s account after the creation of the Capitol of January 6, in accordance with Notification of a federal court. Meta agreed to pay about $ 25 million, and most of the funds are headed for the future Presidential Library of Trump, The Wall Street Journal Reported. Dani Lever, Meta spokesman, confirmed the report for Wired. Trump’s lawyers in the case did not respond to requests for comment.
Zuckerberg did not recognize the settlement regarding the company’s quarterly call on Wednesday, but applauded the president. “We now have an American administration that is proud of our leading companies, he prioritized American technology and which will defend our values and interests abroad,” he said. “I am an optimist about progress and innovation that this may rest.”
In the finish line, Dei cuts can be partially silenced, because the company has been working on them for some time behind the scenes, according to a former META employee, familiar with changes. “It was a slow, painful death,” they say. After the assassination of George Floyd in 2020. Then the operational director of Sheryl Sandberg managed the company’s increased obligations on diversity, including the order Audit of internal civil rights. In his 2022 Diversity reportMeta noticed that it has doubled the number of women and members of black employees since 2019 as part of the purposes of diversity.
With the support of Sandberg, a former Meta employee says: “There was such a huge flow of energy to change something.” But in July 2022, Sandberg announced her departure from everyday operations in the company. Around the same time, the technological giant announced that he would start identifying teams to let go during the upcoming universal dismissals, which took place a few months later. The final cuts were influenced by about 11,000 people and were the first blow to the meta in terms of variety, says the former employee.