Google scraps diversity-based hiring targets

Google, which sells cloud computing and other services to the US government, also said it was reviewing policy changes by President Donald Trump aimed at curbing DEI in the government and among federal contractors

In 2020, CEO Sundar Pichai set a goal to have 30% more of its leaders be from underrepresented groups by 2025. At the time, about 96% of Google's US leaders were white or Asian, and 73% globally were men.

Alphabet's Google is scrapping its goal to hire more employees from underrepresented groups and is reviewing some of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, joining a slew of US businesses scaling back diversity initiatives.

"In 2020, we set aspirational hiring goals and focused on growing our offices outside California and New York to improve representation," Fiona Cicconi, Alphabet's chief people officer, said in the memo on Wednesday. "But in the future we will no longer have aspirational goals."