ANALYSIS: Companies Will Voluntarily Roll DEI Back in 2025

It’s been a rough year for corporate diversity programs. They’ve faced equal protection challenges, antidiscrimination complaints, and social media attacks. Some companies have succumbed to the pressure by rolling back diversity programs like the race- or gender-based fellowships.

Corporate diversity programs are sure to face continuing opposition next year, and these programs will be further splintered. But the rollback will likely come from within. Companies will voluntarily retreat from implementing more DEI programs in 2025, and may even further shrink existing programs to a greater extent than they have so far.

Corporate DEI Curtailed

Corporate diversity programs often are ...