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What Is Honda’s Stance On DEI? [Feb 2025]

Between September and December of 2024, Honda made three public updates to its DEI program.  Here are the updates made and what they mean for the state of Honda’s DEI policy. Honda’s DEI Program Department Status: Active Department Trend: Unchanged Recent DEI Report: 2024 Policy Title: “Diversity | Honda” DEI Webpages: Honda US: Click Here Global/Honda Corporate: Click Here Department Head: Yvette Hunsicker (Vice President of…

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Aldi USA Deleted 6 DEI Pages: Here’s What They Said

Aldi USA deleted 6 DEI-related web pages sometime in late January. The page that used to sit at the URL  “careers.aldi.us/diversity-equity-inclusion” and was titled “ALDInclusive” now shows a 404 error (page not found). HR Brew first reported the news. Here’s what you need to know. The State of Aldi USA’s DEI Program Department Status: Active Trend: Shrinking Recent DEI Report: 2022 Policy Title: ALDInclusive (no longer…

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Petitions, Protests & Space Shortages: JPMorgan’s RTO Fallout

On January 7, JPMorgan Chase mandated a full return to the office, requiring all employees onsite five days per week starting in March. Here are five challenges the bank has faced since announcing the new RTO mandate.   Jan 8: Employees launch a petition on Change.org “As a dedicated employee of J.P. Morgan, I find it increasingly challenging to reconcile the company’s decision to enforce…

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JPMorgan Staff Launch Petition Against 5-Day RTO Mandate

JPMorgan Chase attempted one of the earliest return-to-office dates of the Fortune 500 on September 21, 2020. After a breakout of COVID occurred, the company backed off the mandate. From the beginning of the COVID lockdowns until early 2022, CEO Jamie Dimon took a hard stance against remote work and for office work. Dimon stated, “We want people back to work. And everyone is going…

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Assessing Kroger’s Stance On DEI [Feb 2025]

Kroger has several public DEI programs, frameworks, and commitments on its website. However, many companies with public DEI profiles like this have started to publicly back off or quietly remove DEI programs in the past few months.  What is the state of diversity, equity, and inclusion at Kroger? Here’s everything you need to know. Kroger’s DEI Program Department Status: Active Department Trend: Unchanged Recent DEI Report: 2023 Policy Title:…

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Is PepsiCo Quietly Scaling Back Its DEI Goals?

Last week, NPR reported on several companies that have removed some DEI language from annual reports. PepsiCo, #44 in the Fortune 100, was briefly mentioned. We maintain the Fortune 100 DEI Database, so I wanted to investigate. Here’s what we found out about PepsiCo’s DEI language over the past few years.   PepsiCo Stopped Producing DE&I Reports In 2022 PepsiCo released DE&I reports in 2020,…

Gap Orders 5-Day Office Return Starting September

Gap Inc. is the latest major corporation to announce a full return-to-office (RTO) mandate. San Francisco Business Times first reported the story on February 7, 2025. The order applies to all corporate employees who live near an office and will start in September 2025. Here’s everything you need to know about Gap’s RTO policy.   Gap’s Return To Office Policy [Jan 2025] Notice Date: February…

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Best Buy Quietly Dropped DEI Goals From Its 2024 Report

In a subtle change that appears to be missed from last year, Best Buy has removed key diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) commitments from its 2024 Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability (CRS) Report. I compared Best Buy’s 2023 CR&S Report to its 2024 CR&S Report. The difference revealed that measurable DEI hiring goals, once central to Best Buy’s strategy, have been replaced with broad statements about…

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25 Major Companies Requiring 5 Days In Office

23 of the Fortune 500 companies are currently requiring five days per week in the office. Below, you’ll see all 23 of those companies plus two other notable five-day RTO companies. Want to access this list in a free spreadsheet?   1) Amazon According to CNBC, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sent a new memo instructing corporate employees to come into the office five days per…

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Accenture Walks Back Its ‘Unwavering’ DEI Commitment

In its annual report released on October 10, 2024, Accenture wrote, “We have an unwavering commitment to inclusion and diversity.” Less than four months later, Accenture CEO Julie Sweet said in a memo to employees that the company has canceled four DEI-related goals and programs.  Here’s the recent timeline of Accenture’s DEI policy from 2017 until now. The State of Accenture’s DEI Policy Department Status: Active…