Sundar Pichai said Google doesn't 'bring any such lens' to diversity efforts following a report that said the company scaled back programs to avoid conservative backlash
for a wide-ranging interview, which covered everything from the company's COVID-19 response to its hardware strategy.that Google had significantly scaled back its diversity and inclusion efforts in order to avoid conservative backlash.
"Given the scale at which we build products and the fact we do it locally for our users, we are deeply committed to having that representation in our workforce," he said. According to NBC's report, Google had ended three different diversity programs across the company, named Sojourn, DEI for Managers, and Allyship 101. Google told NBC that Sojourn, which taught employees about implicit racial bias, was stopped because the company was finding it difficult to scale the program globally.
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