A majority of Americans across nearly all demographic groups said DEI initiatives have made no impact on their personal careers, according to a newly released Harris Poll/Axios Vibes survey.
Why it matters: Republican lawmakers and activists have vilified DEI, a term for diversity, equity and inclusion policies used by employers. Companies have responded by rolling back programs.
- Yet Americans — and businesses — have a generally positive to at least indifferent view on the subject.
- On balance, most demographic groups were more likely to say DEI benefited their career than hindered it.
Nowadays more and more businesses are built to rot (or bought by private equity and converted to this model), spending only a very brief period of their life cycle trying to attract customers and talented workers. Or put another way, they’re increasingly being fattened up as quickly as possible for slaughter.
Most will die quickly while clawing as much value back from both customers and workers as possible, while a few winners are monopolies that do the exact same thing but get away with it for longer because there isn’t strong enough competition for people to stop doing business with them (such as Adobe, from what I’ve heard).
As long as investors and executives keep getting the big payoffs they do by gaming the system, it keeps getting worse.