DEI Blowback Has These Employee Groups Feeling Heat

The call goes out routinely to America’s rainbow workforce — to employees who are Black, Hispanic, Asian, indigenous, women, LGBTQ+.

Come and join an employee resource group that’s tailored to you.

Only now, after decades of growth, these popular company organizations are coming in for new scrutiny, along with just about every other diversity initiative in business and academia today.

Budgets are getting cut. Diversity teams being pared. Priorities are shifting — in some cases, drastically — along with the business outlook. Across corporate America, companies in sectors from technology to industrial manufacturing are cutting jobs as they grapple with rising costs amid stubbornly high inflation and ...