Like the spring thaw that signals the end of a long winter, DEI is releasing its grip on society and those who used it to get jobs over the highly qualified and experienced by using their identity are having trouble finding work. 

Easy come, easy go. 

According to NPR, corporations have begun hitting reverse and slamming the gas pedal on their "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" programs, resulting in people using their identity as job qualifiers to suddenly find themselves no longer qualified for the job. This includes major corporations like Verizon: 

For example, just this month Verizon announced it was ending many of its DEI policies, as it sought the Federal Communications Commission's blessing for a $20 billion merger. It promised the agency that its human-resources department "will no longer have a team or any individual roles focused on DEI."

This retreat is decimating the job market for people like Byrdsong Williams. Since early 2023, U.S. employers have eliminated more than 2,600 jobs with words including "diversity" or "DEI" in the titles or descriptions, according to a data analysis conducted for NPR by the workforce analytics firm Revelio Labs.

That accounts for about 13% of the DEI-related jobs that existed in early 2023, at the peak of the hiring boom, NPR is the first to report. Now that boom has shifted firmly into reverse.

What I think a lot of people aren't noticing about DEI policies is the speed at which many corporations shifted away from them, but perhaps, no one should be surprised by it. 

DEI is expensive in many ways. DEI usually requires departments to oversee everything from hiring practices to sensitivity and bias training, and even how projects are undertaken. That's usually a huge chunk of cash right there. 

But then there's the cost that comes from products and results created by inexperienced or unqualified workers who don't produce top-tier results, which end up hurting corporations in the long term. You can see this happening in a variety of ways, including the maintenance work at Boeing, and even Disney's movies over the past few years.

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As I wrote on Sunday, Corporations don't actually care about issues like diversity, or inclusion. When they get involved in social issues, it's usually for PR or to appease investors like BlackRock. When it begins costing them money due to unpopularity, they tend to dip out.

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Since DEI was costing corporations so much money, it was likely that they were greyhounds at the gate, waiting to break out the moment they got the opportunity to speed away as fast as they could. 

And why not? The American people have made it clear that DEI is deeply unpopular with consistent denunciations, boycotts, and even the election of Donald Trump who made it clear he planned on kicking DEI to the curb the moment he was elected. Since the only thing corporations are interested in is making money, they couldn't get rid of it fast enough, and now they had the excuse. 

This is such good news because now if you want a job, you need to do what everyone else does and gain experience and develop talent. Creating a skill set is great for both personal growth and the health of a company, and DEI actually punished that in favor of "looking good" by hiring in the name of "diversity." 

Now we can get back to being a nation of excellence. 

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