Bluewashing Ends DEI at IBM and at Red Hat (HR or Hiring Become Gender- and Race-Neutral)
IBM is adjusting itself to the new administration in the US, just like GAFAM. What does this mean to Red Hat? Probably a lot. All that "whitelist is racist" stuff is likely a thing of the past, with the same applying to diversity quotas. This news report from a Red Hat-connected publisher has just said:
Facing legal challenges and White House pressure, IBM has ditched a corporate policy which considered diversity hiring when calculating executive pay.In its latest annual report, released this week, the large Triangle employer and owner of the Raleigh software giant Red Hat also stopped using the word “diversity” after including the word multiple times in recent yearly reports.
“It’s important to underscore that diversity is not a metric for compensation,” IBM spokesperson Sarah Minkel told The News & Observer in an email Tuesday.
In early 2021, months removed from the murder of George Floyd and a summer of social justice protests, IBM began sharing overviews of its “diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.” That year, the global technology company also added “a diversity modifier” which influenced executive compensation, crediting managers whose hiring efforts better reflected the diversity of their communities.
This has not yet been brought up at #dei:fedoraproject.org, but that room is more or less dead already. This is all the activity this past week:
Red Hat has long used the "diversity" stick to hit the FSF and other 'ideological rivals', more so after IBM took over. Even if Red Hat itself was merely projecting.
Race aside, when it comes to nationality IBM remains biased (towards low salaries). See below this new thread. █
