Google has dropped its diversity hiring targets after President Donald Trump’s order to end diversity, equity, and inclusion policies in the federal government. The tech giant, a federal contractor, has now joined other companies such as Meta and Amazon in scaling back its diversity efforts.
In 2020, Google aimed to increase the proportion of “leadership representation of underrepresented groups” to 30 percent by 2025. However, the company has now scrapped this goal, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Google sent an email to employees announcing the decision, stating that the company will “continue to invest in states across the U.S. and in many countries globally, but in the future we will no longer have aspirational goals.” The email was obtained by the Journal.
The company’s Chief People Officer, Fiona Cicconi, wrote that Google will “always be committed to creating a workplace where we hire the best people wherever we operate, create an environment where everyone can thrive, and treat everyone fairly.”
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has also omitted a sentence about diversity, equity, and inclusion from its annual report. The sentence had appeared in its reports from 2021 through 2024.
The tech giant’s 2024 diversity report shows that about one-third of its workforce in the U.S. were women, 5.7 percent were Black, and 7.5 percent were Latino.
Google is the latest tech company to alter its diversity practices with the new presidency. Amazon and Meta had previously announced plans to roll back their diversity efforts.
The decision comes after President Trump’s executive order to end diversity, equity, and inclusion policies in the federal government. The order states that the Biden Administration forced “illegal and immoral discrimination programs” into virtually all aspects of the Federal Government.
