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With SHRM’s announcement that it was changing its use of the acronym DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) to I&D (inclusion and diversity) recently, along with some major companies publicly pulling back on their I&D efforts, some might feel that these efforts are no longer valued or important.
That’s far from the case. Over the past decade, DEI has become a central focus of virtually every major company as well as large numbers of small and medium-sized organizations.
That growth was initially fueled by many factors, including the social justice movements of recent years. But businesses are also