I don’t understand why this is happening. Why is everyone buying into this hype so strongly?
It’s a bit like how DEI was the big thing for a couple years, and now everyone is abandoning it.
Do corporate leaders just constantly chase hype?
It’s a bit like how DEI was the big thing for a couple years, and now everyone is abandoning it.
Do corporate leaders just constantly chase hype?
I think companies implement DEI initiatives for different reasons than hype though. Many are now abandoning DEI ostensibly out of fear due to the change in U.S. regime.
I personally know an engineering manager who would scoff at MLK Day, but in 2020 starting screaming about how it wasn’t enough and we needed Juneteenth too.
AI isn’t hype at Nvidia, and DEI isn’t hype at Patagonia.
But tech industry-wide, they’re both hype.
The climate has changed. Some of that is economic at big tech companies. But it’s also a ramping down of a variety of things most employers probably didn’t support but kept their mouths shut about.