22 Major Companies That Eliminated Their DEI Teams
This report covers 22 notable companies that completely eliminated their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) teams and policies. We also have a much larger list of companies that have eliminated or reduced their DEI teams here.
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👉 Notable Companies Eliminating DEI 👈
Amtrak
- Date: 2/7/2025
- Story: “Amtrak is rolling out a new in-office mandate and will stop dedicating resources to advance diversity, equity and inclusion programs and policies, a company spokesperson confirmed Thursday.”
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Boeing
- Date: 11/5/2024
- Story: Boeing Co. has dismantled its global DEI department, staff will be combined with another human resources team focused on talent and employee experience
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Booz Allen
- Date: 2/11/2025
- Story: “Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp., a US government defense contractor, is ending its diversity, equity and inclusion programs.”
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Citigroup
- Date: 2/20/2025
- Story: Given the continuation of our robust Talent Management practices and the changes to the mandate of the existing “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Talent Management” team that are described in this note, the group will now be called “Talent Management and Engagement.”
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CNN
- Date: 7/12/2024
- Story: CNN quietly disbanded its “Race and Equality” team of reporters as part of a major restructuring that included firing 100 staffers
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Deloitte
- Date: 2/10/2025
- Story: “We will sunset our workforce and business aspirational diversity goals, our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Transparency Report, and our DEI programming,” Doug Beaudoin, the company’s “chief people officer,” wrote Monday in an internal email to employees that the Standard reviewed.
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Harley-Davidson
- Date: 8/19/2024
- Story: Harley-Davidson announced that they have not operated a DEI function since April 2024, and ended hiring quotas and supplier diversity spend goals.
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IBM
- Date: 5/6/2025
- Story: “IBM will reportedly no longer have a DEI department and eliminated its Diversity Council.”
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Lockheed Martin
- Date: 1/23/2025
- Story: “We will not have goals or incentives based on demographic representation or Affirmative Action Plans. Additionally, our training offerings are compliant with Executive Order 13950 from President Trump’s first administration. “
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Meta (Facebook)
- Date: 1/10/2025
- Story: Citing the ‘shifting legal and policy landscape,’ Meta’s memo announced five big DEI pullbacks.
- 1. Cutting Meta’s DEI team
- 2. Ending equity and inclusion programs
- 3. Sunsetting supplier diversity efforts
- 4. Ending the “Diverse Slate Approach” to hiring 5. Ending representation goals.”
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Microsoft
- Date: 7/19/2024
- Story: The company cited “changing business needs” as the reason for dismantling its DEI team, despite earlier commitments to diversity following the 2020 racial reckoning.
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Molson Coors Beverage
- Date: 9/20/2024
- Story: Molson Coors said it will be getting rid of supplier diversity quotas, and stated its DEI employee training is complete and that it will no longer have specific “representation goals” in its hiring process.
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Ogilvy
- Date: 6/27/2025
- Story: “Perhaps the most controversial element of Ogilvy’s restructuring is the disbanding of its global diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) team.”
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PepsiCo
- Date: 2/20/2025
- Story: On February 20, Robby Starbuck shared on X a list of actions that PepsiCo plans to take in regard to its DEI policy. To summarize: PepsiCo will no longer have a DEI team, program, or policy.
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Qualcomm
- Date: 5/8/2025
- Story: Qualcomm, one of San Diego’s top employers, is officially ending its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) department.
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RTX (Raytheon Technologies)
- Date: 2/3/2025
- Story: “Another major government contractor has removed references to DE&I from its websites, as some companies race to comply with the Trump administration’s recent executive orders.”
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Shopify
- Date: 3/4/2025
- Story: Shopify has been stepping back from other diversity- and inclusion-focused initiatives. In January, the company laid off employees working on its Build Black and Build Native programs.
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T-Mobile
- Date: 4/3/2025
- Story: In addition, the mobile operator has “dissolved as planned our External Diversity & Inclusion Councils, which were created five years ago in partnership with civil rights organizations to advise the company on workforce recruitment, procurement, community investment, and corporate governance.”
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The Smithsonian Institution
- Date: 1/29/2025
- Story: The Smithsonian Institution is closing its diversity office and freezing all federal hiring.
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Tractor Supply Co.
- Date: 6/28/2024
- Story: Tractor Supply said it would be eliminating all of its diversity, equity and inclusion roles while retiring current DEI goals. It did not elaborate on what was entailed in eliminating DEI roles.
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Verizon
- Date: 5/19/2025
- Story: “In its announcement approving the deal, the FCC specifically cited Verizon’s commitment ‘to ending DEI-related practices.'”
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White & Case
- Date: 4/10/2025
- Story: “Global law firm White & Case has discontinued its diversity and inclusion initiatives worldwide.”
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