DEI jobs under fire

As sweeping layoffs plague Big Tech, DEI jobs are taking the brunt of the blow.

According to a Bloomberg report, listings for DEI roles were down 19% last year — a larger downtick than in legal or general human resources departments per data from Textio, a company helping businesses create unbiased job ads.

“I’m cautiously concerned — not that these roles will go to zero but that there will be a spike in ‘Swiss army knife’ type roles,” Textio Chief Executive Officer Kieran Snyder told Bloomberg.

Other sectors besides have dramatically carved into their DEI departments after deploying mass layoffs in anticipation of a pending global recession.

Via RD.  To be clear, I don’t think any one of the measure indicating “peak woke” are all that strong.  You can always argue some other factor is driving the change downward, or the slowing of the trend.  But taken together, they do not look very much like a world where woke will just keep on taking more and more ground.  So when it comes to my earlier call about “woke having peaked,” I think that one is looking pretty good.