Corporate Leadership
IBM Informs Staff of DEI Retreat as Trump-Era Scrutiny Grows
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International Business Machines Corp. spent months revising its diversity initiatives as conservative attacks and souring attitudes toward DEI shifted into a full-blown assault from President Donald Trump.
IBM stopped tying executive compensation to aspirational workforce diversity goals last year and in recent months changed the focus of its supplier diversity program away from contractors’ race and gender to all small businesses and veteran-led companies, according to Jonathan Adashek, IBM’s senior vice president of marketing and communications.