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Why Even ‘Woke’ Companies are Turning Their Backs on Toxic HR Diversity Schemes

by Will Jones
24 June 2024 5:43 PM

More bosses are pulling the handbrake on costly diversity initiatives after realising they have allowed toxic identity politics to enter their workplace and wasted millions of pounds on pointless schemes. The Telegraph has more.

Behind office doors, HR departments at some of Britain’s biggest businesses have recently been feeling defensive and on the back foot. 

Increasingly laid at their doors is the blame for allowing toxic identity politics to enter the workplace, and wasting millions of pounds on pointless diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) schemes. 

Pointing the finger are belt-tightening senior leaders scrutinising their returns amid soaring wage bills, with some even feeling betrayed for being shepherded by HR into the vicious culture wars. 

Christoffer Ellehuus, the Chief Executive of workplace training company MindGym, says: “A lot of them are blaming HR for not having reined it in and having had a much clearer business focus about what they were doing.”

Fuelling this blame game are recent findings that Britain’s diversity drive is “counterproductive” despite businesses spending millions of pounds on ultimately ineffective workplace initiatives. 

It was the conclusion of an independent report commissioned by Kemi Badenoch, the Business Secretary, which discovered popular so-called ESG (environmental, social and governance) practices had little to no tangible impact on boosting diversity or reducing prejudice. 

Ms. Badenoch in March warned British companies against outsourcing or delegating to workplace training consultants with “potentially conflicting incentives” which are ultimately selling “snake oil”.

She told the Times: “There are lots of people who just cook up stuff and say, ‘Oh, I’ve got a course. Why don’t you buy my course?’ … They’ve been making money out of selling stuff that is not evidence-based.”

Badenoch’s report is damning for HR departments who now face questions from their superiors about why they fell prey to so-called snake oil sellers in the first place. 

This includes decisions to roll out divisive training programmes in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, designed to spread awareness around unconscious bias, white privilege and gender pronouns.

However, what were sold as quick fixes to create a fairer workplace – in online training sessions as short as 30 minutes – many have discovered to be little more than fashionable fads with damaging consequences. 

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Black Lives MatterGo woke go brokeHRIdentity politicsWoke capitalismWoke CorporationWoke GobbledegookWokery

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TheGreenAcres
TheGreenAcres
3 years ago

Anyone who uses a vax pass is participating in medical apartheid and should be ashamed of themselves.

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TruthHurts2077
TruthHurts2077
3 years ago
Reply to  TheGreenAcres

Well said, especially using one to get into bloody Luxembourg.

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loopDloop
loopDloop
3 years ago

It’s really simple now. Don’t wear a mask, don’t take the vaccine. Ever.

While I have this comment box open, do you remember the classic movie, The Omega Man, with Charlton Heston. I keep thinking about that movie. And the moment, where his ally, the woman of colour (I don’t recall her name), gets back to his apartment, and unwraps her scarf, to reveal that she too has become one of the zombies/vaccinated, and that chilling line: ‘Matthias sent me’. If you know it, you know what I’m talking about.

That’s all I hear these days when I read about someone else who has succumbed to the mask/vaccine madness: ‘Matthias sent me’.

Ok, that’s it, carry on.

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RW
RW
3 years ago

Meanwhile in Austria (according to something I heard of yesterday): Police out in masses everywhere to hunt for unvaccinated in shops and other prohibited places. They’ve brought this on themselves! How dare they exercise a choice with THIS situation in the hospitals!

[THIS situation typically being someone claims something really bad will happen in a few weeks if his conjectures should turn out to be true for the first time, although I have no specific information on that]

Thanks for the nice article.

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IanC
IanC
3 years ago
Reply to  RW

Hands up anyone who knows where Adolf Hitler was born and spent his formative years.

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Nessimmersion
Nessimmersion
3 years ago

Here’s a piccy of one of the architects of our misfortune entering a local temple of worship.

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Star
Star
3 years ago

“If you want to have a strong immune system, don’t cover your face – just stop stuffing it.”

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Norman
Norman
3 years ago
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Perhaps keeping a mask on whilst eating will do the trick.

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JayBee
JayBee
3 years ago

They certainly don’t deserve General Patton’s grave anymore.

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isobar
isobar
3 years ago

Another depressing postcard. It does seem that, for the moment at least, England seems to be an outlier in terms of restrictions. But why? This doesn’t seems to fit in with the global capitalist plan. Maybe we just seeing a delayed reaction before the upcoming by-elections?

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Cecil B
Cecil B
3 years ago

Fuck Luxem…….. fuck it, can’t even be bothered to spell it

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adamsson
adamsson
3 years ago

Well that just confirms that my decision not to have a foreign holiday was the right one

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Epi
Epi
3 years ago
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Correct, even having a holiday in dear old Blighty feels foreign nowadays.

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Robert Liddell
Robert Liddell
3 years ago

Carrots in baked beans for breakfast! Weird!

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JohnK
JohnK
3 years ago

Perhaps they should rename it “the paranoid inn” instead of Novotel.

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Epi
Epi
3 years ago

Lovely writing Russell thank you the good old British sense of humour always prevails.

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attilathemum
attilathemum
3 years ago

I went there on a school trip decades ago. It was shut. Good article, especially the following observation:

“Public health zealots now run the world, enabled by craven politicians, an alarmist media and dubious Big Tech organisations. Having travelled to five European countries in the last 16 months, I’ve noticed the screws getting tighter, not looser. (So much for the miraculous vaccines getting us back to normal!) It’s moderate tyranny dressed up in nurses’ scrubs. The lands we thought the most civilised have enacted the most authoritarian controls. But then wasn’t this the case in the 1930s, when one of the world’s most sophisticated nations started a cataclysmic conflict?”

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