Comment on Microsoft Says Bye-Bye DEI, Joins Growing List Of Corporations Dismantling Diversity Teams

• ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m the one that’s nothing wrong with. Diversity teams were always a waste of time and resources and hiring based on race, gender or disability will always lead to a worse work force than hiring based on skill.

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  • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We don’t live in a perfect meritocracy where people are judged solely in grounds of their skills, we live in a society that is already prejudiced where a lot of minorities don’t get the chance to prove themselves. There’s studies proving how young white men are favored over any other demographics even when other people have equal or better resumes.

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    • ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That might well be true, but businesses not hiring based on skill shoot themselves in the foot. Call out favouritism and discrimination when you see it, but DEI teams don’t do anyone any favours.

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      • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        However logical it may or may not be, it’s a reality. Just yesterday we got a stark remider of how pervasive poor decisions are.

        Also, simply “calling out” your boss and HR for making poor decisions is more likely to put them against you than to fix anything.

        Frankly feels like this anti-DEI wave is more politically motivated than a matter of results.

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      • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You’re never giving the Indians back their land are you.

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      • iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        People tend to hire people that they like. You don’t really know who is best for a job unless you’ve hired multiple people and they have been working for a while.

        Having employees who happen to have the same background as hiring managers is not the same as having the best employees, but that’s what we have.

        If you’d had DEI training you’d know this. 😉

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  • vithigar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Bad news. They usually don’t hire based on relevant skills either. The skills required to create an appealing resume and do well in a job interview very rarely have anything to do with the skills required for the actual job.

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