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DEI Is Dead. Long Live HR

by Joanna Gray
25 August 2024 11:00 AM

This was the siren call of the HR executive as she used to emerge from her office next to the staff kitchen: “Hey, you will never guess what has just happened.” Whenever she’d hear anyone coming up the stairs she’d saunter into the kitchen for a good gossip. Through these various conversations, I learned: a gentleman in accounts was undergoing treatment for breast cancer, the then CEO of the company had achieved her position through an office coup and one of my team had spent a night in the police cells. From these encounters, I learned two things: 

  1. That perhaps HR executives had too much time on their hands
  2. My own moral cowardice. I should have stopped her mid-flow and suggested such talk was ‘inappropriate’ – the dread word of all HR issues. Of course, I didn’t because I wouldn’t have been able to bear the social cringe, and I loved a good gossip as much as the next fishwife.

It has long been my contention that this EDI business has only been able to flourish because the majority of sensible people wanted to avoid awkward conversations. What person with children and a mortgage was ever brave enough to say to a bright-eyed HR exec, “Um… you know, I’m not sure about this business of being racist against white people in order not to be racist/sexist against men in order not to be sexist, etc.” 

And yet, with Harley Davidson and Jack Daniels binning their diversity targets, there are signs that this misguided oil tanker might slowly be beginning to turn. As American universities are no longer allowed to allocate affirmative action places, surely British academia and industry will eventually follow, and we will revert to a merit-based system. With three sons about to launch into the world, I have skin in the game. I am very happy for them to fail but only on account of their own vast incompetence, not because they are unable to tick a diversity box.

But the question remains, how will HR departments fill their time if eventually stripped of diversity targets and various ‘Womens / Muslim / Black / South Asian / LGBTQ+ and other exclusionary networks are dialled down? Something other than office kitchen gossip must fill the void.

I suggest instead that HR departments organise an exciting suite of genuinely inclusive networks and office clubs that will both create company cohesion and, most importantly, keep HR executives feeling busy and important. Let HR execs establish and celebrate company-wide clubs for everyone to enjoy: five a-side-football and netball teams, cheese and wine appreciation, a company choir, yoga, history and art clubs, an amateur company orchestra, Warhammer, origami and so on. This way, people at all levels of the hierarchy can enjoy each other’s company based on their interests, not immutable characteristics. HR departments could get competitive with each other about who offers the most exhilarating raft of clubs. Articles could be written in HR Magazine about how the CFO changed from scepticism to supporter after enjoying ‘How to Master Watercolour Club’ and realising how much more productive the company was becoming. After years going mouldy on social media and slumped at the desk working from home, people will love these exciting in-person activities. The HR execs can couch it in terms of ‘staff wellbeing’ and ‘community cohesion’ and write flashy updates on LinkedIn about how varied and diverse their company clubs are.

Most importantly, rather than sowing company and countrywide division and strife, HR departments will remain busy booking sports pitches, inviting guest speakers and making sure enough trays of sandwiches have been ordered. Seriously, what’s not to love?

Joanna Gray is a writer and confidence mentor.

Tags: BusinessDEIHuman ResourcesWoke Backlash

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Mogwai
Mogwai
9 months ago

Will DEI ever be truly ”dead” as long as the migrants keep coming, the woke virus keeps on circulating and infecting people and white indigenous natives are continuously overlooked, vilified and unfairly targeted and persecuted by the police/judiciary? As long as there’s blatant favouritism being shown for ‘those who must not be offended’ I can’t see it happening any time soon.
A few examples of ‘multiculturalism’ at its finest, this time from Aberdeen. I presume he meant the flat was given by the council, not the machete;

”In Aberdeen a migrant is seen standing outside his apartment brandishing a machete. He was given it by the council.

Cultural enrichment at its best.”

https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1827628544194720098

”We’ve also had these two things happen lately.

Looks like Scotland is away to go down the shitter too now…”

https://x.com/BasNoBeatha88/status/1827629515520061501

Last edited 9 months ago by Mogwai
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Claphamanian
Claphamanian
9 months ago

Who will clear up the oil slick that the tanker is leaving behind?

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
8 months ago

As I wrote the other day, I think it’s delusional to think that DEI is on the way out. It’s part of a general drift that has been going on for decades. I strongly doubt that we will see the tide turn – all the signs are that people will wake up only when it’s too late

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sskinner
sskinner
8 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

I came across this interesting interpretation of what is going on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Le9_gRrow&lc=UgyJrrdzwA9SBEx3pNd4AaABAg.A7X-IVYIVhXA7_4KFBFiMi
Scientific Reasons WHY Woke Leftists Are Bad at Understanding Others – Dr. Iain McGilchrist

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godknowsimgood
godknowsimgood
8 months ago
Reply to  sskinner

Fascinating. I’ll read and listen to more of Dr Iain McGilchrist.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
8 months ago
Reply to  sskinner

Yes, that’s an interesting talk; thanks.

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Smudger
Smudger
8 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Some American Republican states have chosen to begin a fight back by threatening to move and moving their pension management contracts from the huge uber Woke investment banks such as Blackrock who have been so active in forcing the corporations they invest in to embrace wokery.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/state-pension-funds-gamble-workers-retirement-on-esg/

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
8 months ago
Reply to  Smudger

That would be good news

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sskinner
sskinner
8 months ago

From Heather MacDonald’s excellent book, ‘The Diversity Delusion’. She quotes this excellent piece of illogical double speak from some advocacy lawyers against proposition 209 which banned race and gender preferences in government and education. The plaintiffs against Prop 209 argued ” …that requiring government to treat everyone equally violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment”.

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Pete Sutton
Pete Sutton
8 months ago

Surely, her three sons should be celebrated for “their own vast incompetence”, not failed for it. Maybe the author’s role as a confidence mentor doesn’t extend to her own offspring!

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