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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Business
Lauren Aratani in New York

Diversity policies face ‘full-out attack’ in 2024, leading HR boss warns

office workers pictured from behind in a row of desk chairs
‘It’s going to become a hot-button issue this year,’
Johnny C Taylor Jr said.
Photograph: Maskot/Getty Images

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies within US companies will “come under full-out attack in 2024”, the president of the largest US human resources organization in the US has said.

“It’s going to become a hot-button issue this year,” Johnny C Taylor Jr, president and chief executive of the Society of Human Resource Management, told reporters. The national shift to be more inclusive that followed the murder of George Floyd in 2020, and the Black Lives Matter protests that followed, is already fading, he said. “We’re already seeing companies go away from it.”

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