Where are we tracking on JD’s below two DEI goals internally and externally proclaimed in 2020?
DEI. So that’s why the elt is all out of touch olds folks.
time to donate another 100 million to blm because the half billion from 2020 wasn't enough
DEI has ruined Nike and we're finally starting to turn the corner on all this insanity. The patient has been sick for a long time but thankfully sanity will win the day and the antibiotics are starting to work.
China & Europe have strong laws in place to protect their native workforce. If you want to sell in their country you are required to establish a good corporate footprint, and you are required to hire local.
China also has the death penalty for some business infractions… so I really don’t care about the lack of work visas there.
I went to Nike China HQ and like 98% of them were Chinese??!!! Seems like DEI never made it to Nike China
I was told by a VP the other day DEI is dead. They are looking for "talent" from now on not DEI. This was from the design side.
Here’s a radical, subversive idea: How about if we hire and promote people based solely on their qualifications rather than easily identifiable and measurable physical characteristics?
“Diversity” isn’t a skin color, gender, race, or other easily visible outward characteristic. Actual “diversity” is also found in socioeconomic background, life experiences, differing political preferences, parenthood status, and a bunch of other criteria you can’t determine from physical characteristics or anything else that conveniently checks a neat box. But of course that kind of “diversity” makes it far more difficult to attach metrics and charts so it isn’t important. It is always and forever about appearances.
DE&I is largely a discriminatory, feel-good scam and thankfully most Americans know it and/or are waking up to it. Which is why DE&I programs are increasingly being dismantled in the academic, government, and corporate worlds. The pendulum is starting to swing in the other direction and not a moment too soon.
You know DE&I is rotten when even a more liberal-minded person like me can see what’s happening and objectively identify it for what it is.
We aren’t despite a lot of peoples opinions on DEI, the company is still as white and as male as it was before. There’s a reason whenever they report on their race breakdown numbers they don’t have split retail/ corporate figures, because if we remove the warehouse and retail those numbers are very telling and show a story completely opposite from the one we sell in stores and on tv. There are some moves happening as of the past month or so, but they are mostly within the same silos that have existed before (ie Jordan, pockets in APLA) . Or the positions are merely figure head in nature with no power, and still very male dominated. It becomes even worse when you look at it for the BIPOC women community, I can count on my hands the amount of senior directors and above that represent them.
Truth is this place is not diverse and is a reflection of the city with which it’s placed. This place as of 2017 was hiring mainly Oregonians, and you honestly can’t expect to change that in 7 years, however the company hasn’t even attempted to make honest non performative moves in the right direction.
The talent they do attract that are of the BIPOC community leave due to a lack of community or run off to NY the first chance they get.
They haven’t really done anything for DEI.
They chose to spend more money hiring in SoCal than setup a diverse office in the MidWest.
If they make any movement on their numbers it will be because of The Rat’s racial bias in hiring + offshoring. Sadly Indians, on average, have many racial biases against minorities.
In short. Outside our warehouses Nike doesn’t really care about African Americans. Just the appearance that they do.
Considering the target date for these goals are 2025 and hiring at a crawl, I'd be more interested in the layoff numbers by race and gender. Good way to raise the percentages up without hiring, don't you think?