Google scraps diversity-based hiring targets, WSJ reports

With this, Google joins a slew of U.S. businesses that have been scaling back their diversity initiatives, years after pushing for more inclusive policies in the wake of protests against the police killings of George Floyd and other Black Americans in 2020. Alphabet's annual filing with the U.S. SEC on Wednesday showed it omitted a line saying it was "committed to making diversity, equity and inclusion part of everything we do and to growing a workforce that is representative of the users we serve". That statement appeared in annual reports from 2021 to 2023.