Companies Grapple With Diversity Questions After U.S. Election
- Hundreds of employee emails ‘raising concerns’ at one company
- Trump will name new heads of EEOC, Labor, Justice departments
Apple CEO Tim Cook.
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Chief executive officers at some of the largest U.S. companies, from General Electric Co. to Apple Inc., are reassuring employees they support workplace diversity as a salve to anxieties caused by the bruising presidential election.
Jeffrey Immelt affirmed GE’s commitment to “people of all races, genders and sexual orientations” in an internal blog post Wednesday musing on the election. That echoed Apple CEO Tim Cook’s message to workers that the tech giant welcomes everyone, “regardless of what they look like, where they come from, how they worship or who they love.” Oscar Munoz of United Continental Holdings Inc. said in a message to employees that they represent “every creed and conviction, background and belief.”