Paramount employees are blasting the studio’s determination to rotation backmost their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives successful a searing missive sent to the company’s co-CEOs, according to 1 report.
"As employees of Paramount Global, we are highly disappointed — but not amazed — by the elder enactment team's determination to rotation backmost our commitments to DEI. This capitulation reflects the profound hypocrisy successful extracting labour from divers communities, creating contented from and for divers communities, targeting the dollars of divers communities... portion committing to the erasure and exclusion of those precise aforesaid divers communities," the employees, who are anonymous, said successful the missive posted connected LinkedIn by the New York Times’ Benjamin Mullin.
The media conglomerate reportedly informed employees that the institution would beryllium backtracking connected its DEI policies successful a February memo.
Paramount is ending their aspirational hiring goals with respect to race, sex and sexuality, per the memo. The memo, which was signed by Paramount co-CEOs Brian Robbins, George Cheeks and Chris McCarthy, besides stated that the institution would extremity DEI factors successful its worker compensation program and halt collecting diverseness information connected its U.S. occupation applicants.
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"With our concern objectives firmly successful mind, we volition proceed to measure our programs and attack to guarantee that we are widening our aperture to pull endowment from each geographies, backgrounds and perspectives. That whitethorn mean expanding existing programs portion ending others," the memo said.
The CEOs said that the changes were indispensable owed to the Trump administration’s enforcement orders abolishing DEI successful the national authorities and targeting the policies among national contractors, which the memo states "require changes successful the mode the institution [Paramount] approaches inclusion moving forward."
Paramount's DEI changes travel arsenic the institution finds itself nether FCC scrutiny regarding its $8 cardinal merger with autarkic workplace Skydance.
Some Paramount employees did not look to invited the changes, however, accusing the CEOs of "continuing to buss the ringing and wage disconnected mob bosses," successful their letter, which was addressed to them.
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"How, successful bully conscience, tin we proceed to marketplace to our planetary audiences and nett from their taste contributions, portion erasing our ain interior commitments to equity for and inclusion of those audiences? How tin we proceed to pull endowment with promises that are walked backmost the infinitesimal they go inconvenient?" the missive stated.
The employees besides slammed the company, which owns CBS, BET, Comedy Central and MTV, for caller layoffs which they assertion has forced them to "say goodbye to countless talented and superb colleagues," whom they assertion were disproportionately from "underrepresented" demographics.
Paramount chopped 15% of its US workforce successful August 2024.
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Paramount declined to remark for this story.
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