Paramount's headquarters in New York on August 27, 2024.
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Overall According to a CNBC note, its employees told its employees this week.
In the note sent to employees on Wednesday, Paramount said that he Comply with President Donald Trump executive decree Prohibit practice in the federal government and demand that agencies are investigating private companies compared to their Dei programs.
The CO-PDG George Cheeks, Chris McCarthy and Brian Robbins cited the executive decree in the memo, as well as the Supreme Court And federal mandates, such as the impulse for the policy of the media giant change.
Among the modifications, the company said that it “will no longer buy or no longer use ambitious digital objectives linked to race, ethnicity, sex or sex of hires”. Paramount also said that he had ended his policy for collecting these statistics for his candidates in the United States on forms and career pages, except on the markets where he is legally required to do so.
“To be the best storytellers and continue to stimulate success, we must have a very talented, devoted and creative workforce that reflects the perspectives and experiences of our many different audiences. Values such as inclusiveness and collaboration are part of primordial culture and will continue to be,” the co-ceos wrote in memo.
They added that they will continue to assess their policies and seek talents in all horizons.
Paramount has participated in a certain number of efforts of diversity, equity and inclusion. He given Millions to racial justice provoke in 2020 after the murder of the police of George Floyd and praised initiatives such as a diversity of suppliers program And Change contentsa campaign for revision narration on racial equity and mental health. The company organized a Inclusion week For years and maintains a global inclusion office.
“Diversity, equity and inclusion are fundamental for our activities,” said former CEO Bob Bakish during the inclusion week in 2023 The Hollywood Reporter.
Paramount joins companies like Walmart,, Target And Amazon In backwards Their objectives and policies in recent months. Others, like Apple and Costco, have publicly defended And engaged in their positions, even if the Trump administration has increased its attacks against practices.
Media companies have taken various measures to respond to the Trump administration's policy changes since the president’s inauguration last month.
Also this week, Discovery Warner Bros. Managers told employees that the company would rename its DEI efforts as “inclusion” and update its website to reflect the change, according to a memo obtained by CNBC. They also said that Warner Bros. Discovery will no longer participate in third -party surveys in the workplace and will have a “uniform and coherent application process” for their development programs.
Earlier this month, Disney changed its DEI programs, which included updating performance factors and brand change initiatives and employee resource groups, among others.
Above the same time, the PBS public broadcaster – who, as a beneficiary of federal funding, is more directly assigned by the order of Trump than companies – said he would close his office. CNBC indicated that the employees of Dei would leave the company so that it Stay in accordance with Trump's decree.
Meanwhile, the Federal Communications Commission began investigator Comcast on his efforts. Trump's decree, signed during his first day in power, orders the federal agencies to identify and probe the “most flagrant and discriminating Dei practitioners” in their sectors. Comcast previously declared in a statement that he would cooperate with the investigation.
Disclosure: Comcast has nbcuniversal, the parent company of CNBC.
