Over the past eighteen months, dozens of major corporations have scaled back or quietly dismantled their diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. The stated reasons vary — legal risk after the Supreme Court's affirmative action ruling, shareholder pressure, political blowback. The actual effect on the workforce is only beginning to be measured.
What emerges from initial data is a bifurcation: companies that maintained structured DEI pipelines retain more workers from underrepresented groups at the mid-management level. Companies that abandoned them are seeing attrition disproportionately concentrated in those same cohorts. The market is solving for something — and it isn't inclusion.
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