Intel To Slash 10,500 Jobs

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I would also wonder if they were following the DEI hiring practices because it seems there are quite a few companies now firing or cutting back on their DEI crew.

Microsoft Reportedly Lays Off DEI Team With A Brutal Message​

It's fun to see it from the karma point of view : a rather fast backlash

@Palinurus
Strange, i can read it here from BE.
As the article is not much long here it is :

In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in police custody, many companies made highly publicized vows about “diversity, equity and inclusion” initiatives filled with all the typical left-wing rhetoric about race, having “conversations” and “doing better.”

Doing better how exactly? Focusing on your customer base and delivering quality service?

No. In 2020, doing better meant emphasizing identity politics in the workplace.

DEI is just a long-winded way of promoting discrimination through hiring initiatives and creating a toxic work culture where employees view each other by their race, ethnicity, gender and national origin. It is the antithesis of individuality and a vehicle for identitarianism.

Four years later, many businesses have realized that focusing on skin color or sex is not the greatest idea.

For example, Microsoft just laid off its entire internal DEI team, according to a Business Insider report on Monday.

“True systems-change work associated with DEI programs everywhere are no longer business critical or smart as they were in 2020,” a leader of the team wrote in an email “sent to thousands of employees,” according to the outlet.

The email said the DEI team was eliminated because of “changing business needs” as of July 1, the report said.

It was unknown how many people had lost their jobs.

In 2020, Microsoft pledged to double the number of black leaders in the company by 2025.

Undoubtedly, shifting focus away from DEI will hamstring those race-based hiring efforts.

Microsoft is not alone.

Bloomberg reported that Zoom laid off its DEI staff in February. Meanwhile, Google and Meta made DEI cuts last year, according to CNBC.

It’s almost as if instituting identity-based hiring practices and promoting division in the workplace aren’t so great for business, no?

Microsoft spokesman Jeff Jones maintained these initiatives are still important to the company — although he dropped the E-for-equity in DEI in a statement to Business Insider.

“Our focus on diversity and inclusion is unwavering and we are holding firm on our expectations, prioritizing accountability, and continuing to focus on this work,” Jones said.

This is essentially corporate babble to dance around the fact that those employees were propaganda officers on whom Microsoft was tired of wasting money, but it would look outright embarrassing to denounce the effort as a whole at this point.

It was hard in 2020 to make the intellectual leap from a black man’s death in Minneapolis to the seemingly overnight push for a narrative infecting every waking moment of life.

If anyone is still wasting money on DEI, the motivation will surely dissipate.

These initiatives do not promote productivity or create profit. They only sow division.

 

[seek10]

It's fun to see it from the karma point of view : a rather fast backlash

@Palinurus
Strange, i can read it here from BE.
As the article is not much long here it is :

Microsoft spokesman Jeff Jones maintained these initiatives are still important to the company — although he dropped the E-for-equity in DEI in a statement to Business Insider.

“Our focus on diversity and inclusion is unwavering and we are holding firm on our expectations, prioritizing accountability, and continuing to focus on this work,” Jones said.

This is essentially corporate babble to dance around the fact that those employees were propaganda officers on whom Microsoft was tired of wasting money, but it would look outright embarrassing to denounce the effort as a whole at this point.

It was hard in 2020 to make the intellectual leap from a black man’s death in Minneapolis to the seemingly overnight push for a narrative infecting every waking moment of life.

In our company, we still have to take DEI courses once or twice a year (Thank god they are not instructor led). My company set for another wave of restructuring (lay off) due to firing of some upper management and new management hires. I am also not sure of my own fate due to my boss change. Going along doing as usual supporting same systems ( old boss stuff) and working more to support new boss as if all that matters. We will see what will happen.

It is reasonable to assume that my company will wake up from sleep of this DEI nonsense and reduce some DEI hires. I don't mean it has to be based on skin color. For example in IT where brown skin dominates (in corporate non-management or lower management roles), White and Black are DEI hires. This is how it goes.

 

[Nienna]

@Nienna
I cannot access the article because truthpress.com blocks me. Although I tried various versions of the address, the result was the same every time. They say it's a security issue due to cloudflare (Cloudflare Ray ID: 8a6d6f5f2fa40c85).

I'm using Firefox (fully updated) from Amsterdam (The Netherlands; Europe). Maybe the content is reserved for USA readers only ?

Here's the article, Palinurus and thank you for letting me know:

In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in police custody, many companies made highly publicized vows about “diversity, equity and inclusion” initiatives filled with all the typical left-wing rhetoric about race, having “conversations” and “doing better.”

Doing better how exactly? Focusing on your customer base and delivering quality service?

No. In 2020, doing better meant emphasizing identity politics in the workplace.

DEI is just a long-winded way of promoting discrimination through hiring initiatives and creating a toxic work culture where employees view each other by their race, ethnicity, gender and national origin. It is the antithesis of individuality and a vehicle for identitarianism.

Four years later, many businesses have realized that focusing on skin color or sex is not the greatest idea.

For example, Microsoft just laid off its entire internal DEI team, according to a Business Insider report on Monday.

“True systems-change work associated with DEI programs everywhere are no longer business critical or smart as they were in 2020,” a leader of the team wrote in an email “sent to thousands of employees,” according to the outlet.

The email said the DEI team was eliminated because of “changing business needs” as of July 1, the report said.

It was unknown how many people had lost their jobs.

In 2020, Microsoft pledged to double the number of black leaders in the company by 2025.

Undoubtedly, shifting focus away from DEI will hamstring those race-based hiring efforts.

Microsoft is not alone.

Bloomberg reported that Zoom laid off its DEI staff in February. Meanwhile, Google and Meta made DEI cuts last year, according to CNBC.

It’s almost as if instituting identity-based hiring practices and promoting division in the workplace aren’t so great for business, no?

Microsoft spokesman Jeff Jones maintained these initiatives are still important to the company — although he dropped the E-for-equity in DEI in a statement to Business Insider.

“Our focus on diversity and inclusion is unwavering and we are holding firm on our expectations, prioritizing accountability, and continuing to focus on this work,” Jones said.

This is essentially corporate babble to dance around the fact that those employees were propaganda officers on whom Microsoft was tired of wasting money, but it would look outright embarrassing to denounce the effort as a whole at this point.

It was hard in 2020 to make the intellectual leap from a black man’s death in Minneapolis to the seemingly overnight push for a narrative infecting every waking moment of life.

If anyone is still wasting money on DEI, the motivation will surely dissipate.

These initiatives do not promote productivity or create profit. They only sow division.

Added: Annnnd, I see it's been posted by others, But, I'm gonna leave it here.

 

[PopHistorian]

Here's another article prompted by the Microsoft layoff of DEI team, which also lists many other companies that have backed off of the DEI initiative, suggesting to me that, from a business perspective, they knew it was very damaging right from the start. What business person wouldn't realize that?

I found it interesting that MSN even carried an article with the dismissive-sounding phrase, "ditch 'woke' policy."

MSN

Microsoft has reportedly laid off a team devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion after pouring millions of dollars into the initiative — becoming the latest major company to ditch the “woke” policy.

The Big Tech giant disbanded the DEI team at the beginning of the month due to “changing business needs,” according to a July 1 email obtained by Business Insider. [...] Last year, Google and Meta reduced the scope of their DEI programs and cut staff as part of restructuring and layoffs at both companies, according to CNBC.

On Tuesday, tractor giant John Deere announced it will scuttle nearly all its DEI polices in favor of a quality-based workplace. That followed a decision last month by farm chain retailer Tractor Supply to axe all DEI goals and positions.

Zoom, Snap, Tesla, DoorDash, Lyft, Home Depot and Wayfair have also downsized their DEI teams.

Overall, DEI-related job postings declined by 44% by mid-2023 compared to the same period in 2022.

 

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Attention-critical, high responsibility jobs:

Airport control tower, spaceport flight control, nuclear power plants central control room, battlefield commander's minute decisions determine if people die or survive, 20+ hour heart and brain surgeries, operator for software controlling large hedgefunds' computerized stockmarket money-making and in case of Intel:
- 12 seconds usually is given for an important decision by a human operator - if the operator makes a bad evaluation, the 98% robotized factory could execute an unwanted machining process - prepare the wrong order at a wrong time - resulting in a loss of millions of dollars.

Someone has to do it, otherwise society collapses. Imagine such high-responsibility people get into emotional imbalances, because of new stress in their lives. Covid and similar that disturbs brain cells normal functioning. Despite multi-level safeguards Intel messed up several of these high risk decisions, resulting contamination thus slowly rusting CPU-s created by the robot factories. Millions of people bought these expensive CPUs, heavily used them in their computers. Then the rust began eating away these processors resulting in errors then in broken down computers refusing to start.

If you are such a high-responsibility worker and you have a contract detailing the risks. If you make a bad decision resulting in a loss of millions of dollars, the enormous stress affecting your health, worries about the future, how do you sleep at night? :-o
The stupid saying:
- We are all human, we are prone to errors..
- Not in these jobs buddy, here you do NOT make mistakes! Or else..