Might be?
Yea, and Jackie O kind of soured on convertibles.

"U.S. Workers Might Be Souring on DEI"

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'According to a new survey from the Pew Research Center, U.S. workers
are feeling “slightly more negative” about DEI efforts compared to last
year.

Corporate DEI efforts have come under fire in the U.S., and particularly
since the Supreme Court ruled against affirmative action in June 2023.
Now, more workers are starting to wonder: Is DEI worthwhile?

Indeed, the share of U.S. workers who said that focusing on DEI efforts
at work is “a good thing” dropped from 56 percent in February 2023 to 52
percent in October 2024, according to a new survey from the Pew Research
Center. Meanwhile, the share who said it was “a bad thing” grew from 16
percent to 21 percent in the same timeframe.

The biggest drivers of the shift: Republicans and men, who have “only
become more negative since last year,” according to the report.

Forty-two percent of “Republican and Republican-leaning workers” say
focusing on DEI is “a bad thing” — a notable jump from 30 percent in
2023. For male workers, the share who characterized DEI as “a bad thing”
jumped from 23 to 29 percent.

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Workers generally are also more likely to believe that their company is
paying “too much attention” to increasing DEI, up from 14 percent in
2023 to 19 percent this year.

Here, “White, Black and Hispanic workers” were all “slightly more
likely” to agree with this assessment, according to the report. Eight
percent of Black workers, for instance, said their companies paid DEI
“too much attention,” compared with 3 percent in 2023.

And both Republicans and Democrats were more likely to agree that DEI is
getting too much attention than in 2023, though Republicans are still
more likely to do so.

This shift in worker perspectives — though slight overall — comes as
numerous companies seem to reconsider their commitments to DEI and the
sweeping pledges many made in the wake of George Floyd’s 2020 murder.

This year, job postings for DEI-related roles have fallen, according to
multiple reports, and some companies have held back on their DEI
investments this year, as Inc. previously reported. Plus, according to
another report, more than half of companies have adjusted their DEI
terminology in the past year.

A likely factor here: the slew of anti-DEI lawsuits waged against
companies for their DEI efforts in the last year or so. The Meltzer
Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging — a research center at
New York University’s School of Law — is currently tracking more than
100 anti-DEI cases, many of which pertain to DEI efforts in businesses.

Some of those, like the lawsuit against fintech platform Hello Alice’s
grant program, have been dismissed. Others have settled, like in the
case of the Fearless Fund, the venture capital firm sued by Edward
Blum’s American Alliance for Equal Rights.

But that pressure hasn’t stopped companies from pursuing these efforts
entirely. In fact, according to a survey from New York City-based
executive search firm Bridge Partners this year, while more companies
are now holding back on DEI investments, still nearly three and four
company leaders say they “plan to increase their commitment to DEI
within the next two years.”

And to the more than half of U.S. workers — 52 percent — who still
believe increasing DEI at work is a “good thing,” that could be welcome.

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On 11/20/2024 5:44 PM, John Smyth wrote:
> Might be?
> Yea, and Jackie O kind of soured on convertibles.

Oh hell, that was funny!!!