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Amazon cuts reference to diversity from annual report weeks after ending DEI

Amazon has eliminated references to “inclusion and diversity” within it Annual Report It was submitted on Thursday after telling employees in December. It informed the diversity program is being removed as part of a broader setback in the US from such policies.

Years after pushing for more inclusive policies following the protests against police killings of George Floyd and other Black Americans in 2020, some of America's biggest companies have been saying their diversity is reducing the initiative.


Amazon eliminated references to “inclusion and diversity” in its annual report. Bloomberg via Getty Image

The metaplatform of a major technology company and Google at Alphabet are among the companies that have rolled back such programs in the face of attacks from conservative groups.


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Amazon will join the Meta Platform and Google when dropping DEI policies. Reuters

Over the past two years, the Human Capital section of Amazon's annual report states: . ”

In the 2024 version, that statement was reduced.

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