Salesforce reduces the hiring objectives of diversity in the midst of the reaction

• Salesforce has lowered the diversity of the hiring objectives of its latest annual financial disclosure.
• The company also removed references to diversity and inclusion as the basic values ​​of the company.
• Salesforce joins the tastes of Amazon, Google, Meta and Walmart in Rapin Back Dei programs.

Salesforce is the last giant of technology to abandon the explicit diversity hiring objectives.

This occurs in the wake of decrees published by President Donald Trump in January aimed at dismantling diversity, equity and inclusion programs within the federal government and its entrepreneurs.

The San Francisco -based software giant filed its annual financial disclosure on Wednesday. The company removed the language which described the way in which managers of managers were linked to the diversity of employees.

The latest disclosure also omitted an explicit language describing diversity and inclusion as the basic values ​​of the company, focusing solely on equality.

“Although we do not specify the objectives of representation, we remain attached to our fundamental value of equality,” a spokesperson for Salesforce in Bloomberg told the question of the company’s hiring process.

Salesforce stressed in the file that his commitment to equality is “firmly rooted in compliance with federal law and other laws and regulations applicable in the regions in which we operate”.

In its deposits, society declares: “We appreciate the equality of each individual in our company and in our communities and we are committed to promoting a workplace in accordance with these protections, creating an inclusive culture where each individual feels seen, heard and appreciated.”

The CEO of Salesforce, Marc Benioff, previously established a high standard to support LGBTQ +employees. In an interview with Axios last month, Benioff said: “If someone will come after our employees and discriminate in any way, we will do our best to help them.”

The Rollback Place Salesforce among several other large companies, including Amazon, Google, Walmart, Meta, Deloitte and KPMG, which have recently reduced or entirely interrupted the programs of diversity, equity and inclusion.

In a memo to the staff in December, Amazon said it was “The liquidation of obsolete programs and materials “linked to diversity and inclusion. The company also rubbed references prior to the diversity and inclusion of its annual report in 2024 published in February.

Google has removed the hiring objectives explicitly linked to the representation of diversity and met-ferm its team and training programs. Meta’s internal note disclosed specifically refers Change of political and legal landscape around Dei policies.

Business Insider has previously reported that since mid-2010, more than 20 large companies have returned Dei initiatives to the United States.

The representatives of Salesforce did not immediately respond to the request for comments from Business Insider.