“Bringing together employees with diverse backgrounds, viewpoints, perspectives, and beliefs to achieve common workplace goals.”

OK. I'm good with that. Go do it.

I think most people are in favor of the goal of having co-workers who aren't just carbon copies of each other. It leads to blind spots.

In the past, there were fairly obvious blind spots. Women and black people were excluded from teams, and made to feel unwelcome even when they were included. One of the blind spots that created was to miss the opportunity to hire good employees. Another was that they'd sometimes have different perspectives on products, marketing, and approaches. It would be bad for the bottom line.

Fixing that isn't easy. Naive approaches often failed, and worse, they gave people the excuse to not even try.

So... you've got a better way? Fantastic. If nothing else I'm a fan of even saying it's a thing worth doing.

It would be nice if you kept some kind of metrics. One of the jobs of all of those DEI teams was to try and measure progress. That's hard to do, and even defining what you count risks diverting you, but hard things can still be worth doing.

I'll admit, I've got dark suspicions that it will get worse instead of better, and that you want it to be worse. But I'll suspend judgment, especially since there's nothing I can do about it. So go do the thing.

> Elon Musk’s DOGE, the newly formed government agency aiming for drastic cuts across the U.S. government, has brought in an HR employment attorney and consultant who has spent the last few years teaching companies her “refreshing approach to diversity and inclusion” which include attempting to “redefine” DEI in a manner that she says is more consistent with Christianity and offers a “non-woke” version of HR practices, 404 Media has learned.

I’m guessing religious tests will soon be required.