To the CEOs who’ve joined Trump’s fight against diversity, I say this: you’re making a big mistake | Stefan Stern

Ditching DEI initiatives will curry favour in the Oval Office. It will also alienate the workforces bosses rely on

The mask has slipped and the gloves are off. A company which in 2022 boasted that it had exceeded its target, spending $1.26 billion with US certified diverse suppliers", is now ending diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

That company is Meta (formerly known as Facebook), whose chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, announced DEI dismantling shortly before he had a prominent seat at Donald Trump's recent inauguration. Perhaps from that privileged spot he was able to imbibe some of the masculine energy" he says he wants to see at work.

Stefan Stern is co-author of Myths of Management and the former director of the High Pay Centre. His latest book is Fair or Foul: the Lady Macbeth Guide to Ambition