Duhh! Yep I’m dat stupid to think immoral and discriminatory DEI business practices negatively affects a company. The last two years of AT&T proclaiming their discriminatory hiring stats is proof. It divides and not unite employees based on everything but merit.
Excluding the minority C-suite. The last two yrs a DEI e-mail was sent out to all with the hiring and total employee stats. It showed per US race demographics that the AT&T employee base is unbalanced it shows there is less % white employees than the US population and other races were over represented. Based on those numbers it’s discriminatory. It stated last year that over 70% of hires were people of color or part of the alphabet group, so they are hiring based on race, gender or alphabet of the unrepresented, according to their wording but their own statistics show that to be dubious. The opposite is true, Caucasian’s are the underrepresented.
Now if they had said they were using a merit based hiring practice, race, gender and alphabet wouldn’t matter because the most talented and qualified candidates are being hired. Just be fair is all one could hope for and DEI isn’t the vehicle to do that, it’s just another version of affirmative action.