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突发！德勤宣布重大消息

四大新鲜事儿 · 公众号 · · 2025-02-13 11:25

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据《商业内幕》 2025年2月12日报道，德勤美国对其多样性、公平与包容（DEI）政策进行了一系列调整， 包括要求参与政府合同的员工从电子邮件签名中删除性别代词。

德勤首席人力官Doug Beaudoin在周一发给员工的一封邮件中表示： “我们将逐步停止我们的员工队伍和业务理想多元化目标、DEI透明度报告以及DEI相关项目。”

他写道，这些变化是在“ 对所有相关政府指令进行详细审查之后做出的，以确保我们作为一家私营企业和政府承包商遵守这些指令要求”。这种审查与“市场上的其他企业”做法一致。

Doug Beaudoin在邮件中用加粗字体强调：“ 德勤欢迎每一个人 。”

这封备忘录发布的一周前， 德勤要求其服务于公共部门的政府与公共服务部门的员工从电子邮件签名中删除性别代词。

《商业内幕》看到的2月5日的一份备忘录中，该部门的员工被告知要更新他们的电子邮件签名模板， “以符合最新的政府客户做法和要求”。

这份指示称：“ 请注意，模板仅限于姓名、职位信息和业务联系信息。不应包含任何其他个人信息，包括引语、标语或性别代词。”

备忘录称，政府与公共服务部门的员工“长期致力于遵守美国政府的要求”。

关于电子邮件签名的这份备忘录最早由《金融时报》报道。

虽然DEI计划的变化适用于德勤在美国的17.3万名员工，但 其英国业务仍“致力于”实现多元化目标，并将继续每年报告其在包容性方面的进展。 德勤英国公司的负责人告诉员工， 该公司在英国仍“致力于”实现多元化目标。

这些评论出自德勤英国高级合伙人兼首席执行官Richard Houston周二发出的一份备忘录。Richard Houston表示， 他发送这份备忘录是为了回应媒体对德勤美国公司DEI调整的报道。

他写道： “外部环境的事件不会改变我们打造包容性文化以及帮助我们所有员工充分发挥潜力的承诺。”

在谈到德勤美国公司在DEI方面的调整时， Houston 告诉英国员工，公司领导“ 已经明确表示，这反映了全面遵守联邦法律的必要性”。

特朗普总统上任首日就签署了一项行政命令， 终止联邦政府的多元化项目，并下令所有联邦DEI工作人员休假，同时解散他们所在的部门。

上周，特朗普任命的司法部长Attorney General, Pam Bondi指示司法部 “调查、消除并惩处”任何接受联邦资金的私营企业和大学中“非法的”DEI项目。

德勤每年通过与包括国防部以及卫生与公众服务部在内的联邦机构签订的合同获得32亿美元收入。

德勤政府与公共服务部门的一名员工在匿名接受《商业内幕》采访时表示，要求修改电子邮件签名是为了“将潜在风险暴露降至最低”以及“维护与白宫的良好关系”。

此前，德勤的一名员工被曝向《华盛顿邮报》泄露了现任副总统JD Vance 2020年高度批评特朗普的信息。

2024年9月，特朗普之子Donald Trump Jr在X平台上公布了被指控泄露信息的德勤高管的姓名。

这位总统之子还威胁称： “德勤还获得了20亿美元政府合同。也许现在是共和党终结德勤靠纳税人资金获利的时候了？”详见《员工泄露万斯言论，“四大”某记30亿美元政府大单受威胁？》

最近几个月，包括Meta、沃尔玛（Walmart）和塔吉特（Target）在内的越来越多的公司都取消了他们的DEI政策。

上周，同为咨询巨头的埃森哲告诉员工，它正在修订其DEI政策。这家咨询公司采用了与德勤类似的措辞，在一份内部备忘录中告诉员工，它正在“逐步停止”现有的目标和项目。

德勤没有立即回复《商业内幕》的置评请求。

原文如下：

Deloitte US has made a series of changes to its DEI practices, according to internal memos seen by BI.
The moves include telling staff working on government contracts to remove pronouns from email signatures.
Deloitte's UK chief told staff that the firm remained "committed" to diversity goals in the UK.

Deloitte has told some staff to remove pronouns from their email signatures.

The move by the world's largest professional services firm comes amid a pullback on its diversity programs in the US that is not being followed by the UK division.

"We will sunset our workforce and business aspirational diversity goals, our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Transparency report, and our DEI programming," Doug Beaudoin, Deloitte's chief people officer, told employees in an email sent on Monday and seen by Business Insider.

He wrote that the changes followed "a detailed review of all pertinent government directives to ensure we comply with their requirements, both as a private enterprise and as a government contractor." That review was in line with "others in the marketplace."

"Everyone is welcome at Deloitte," Beaudoin emphasized in bold text in the email.

The memo comes a week after Deloitte asked workers in its Government & Public Services division, which serves the public sector, to remove pronouns from their email signatures.

In a February 5 memo seen by BI, staff in that division were told to update their email signature template "to align with emerging government client practices and requirements."

"Please note that the template is limited to name, role information, and business contact information. Any other personal information, including quotes, taglines or pronouns, should not be included," the directive said.

Government & Public Services workers have a "longstanding commitment to compliance with US government requirements," the memo said.

The memo about the email signatures was first reported by The Financial Times.

While the changes to DEI programs apply to Deloitte's 173,000 US employees, its UK operation remained "committed" to diversity goals and would continue to report annually on its progress on inclusion.

The comments were made in a memo sent on Tuesday by Richard Houston, senior partner and chief executive of Deloitte UK, and seen by BI. Houston said he was sending the memo in response to media coverage of the US DEI changes.

"Events in the external landscape do not change our commitment to building an inclusive culture and helping all our people to reach their full potential," he wrote.

Addressing Deloitte US's changes on DEI, Houston told the UK workforce that leaders had "been clear that this reflects the need to remain fully compliant with federal laws."

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to end diversity programs across the federal government and ordered all federal DEI staffers to be placed on leave while their departments are disbanded.

Last week, Trump's Attorney General, Pam Bondi, instructed the Department of Justice to "investigate, eliminate, and penalize" any "illegal" DEI programs at private sector companies and universities that receive federal funds.

Deloitte receives $3.2 billion annually through its contracts with federal agencies, including the Departments of Defense and Health and Human Services.

A Deloitte employee in the GPS division, who did not want to be named as they were not permitted to speak to the media, told BI the email signature request was made to "minimize potential risk exposure" and "maintain goodwill" with the White House.

"Deloitte is taking the 'better to be safe, than sorry' approach here," the person said.

Deloitte has already clashed with the MAGA movement after one of its employees was revealed to have leaked messages sent by now-Vice President JD Vance in 2020 that were highly critical of Trump to The Washington Post.

In September 2024, Donald Trump Jr. posted the name of the Deloitte executive accused of leaking messages on X.

"Deloitte also gets $2B in govt contracts. Maybe it's time for the GOP to end Deloitte's taxpayer funded gravy train?" the president's son said.

The Big Four firm joins a growing list of companies, including Meta, Walmart, and Target, that have rolled back their DEI policies in recent months.

Last week, fellow consulting giant Accenture told staff it was revising its DEI policies. The consultancy chose similar phrasing to Deloitte, telling staff in an internal memo that it was "sunsetting" existing goals and programs.

Deloitte did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

Do you work at Deloitte? Contact this reporter in confidence at [email protected] or on Signal at Polly_Thompson.89 to share your thoughts on these changes. You can remain anonymous.

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