A massive multinational corporation with an estimated market value north of $200 billion has agreed to pay a $21.5 million settlement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) over its cultivation of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) programs that boosted certain job candidates over others solely on the basis of race, gender, or sexual identity. But Deloitte is not just another behemoth firm that decided to go woke. The company exists to instruct corporations worldwide on how to run their businesses. This means Deloitte didn’t just discriminate against its own employees. It feverishly worked to embed systemic bias in the global workplace in the name of “social justice.”
“Deloitte provides leading professional services to nearly 90% of the Fortune Global 500 and thousands of private companies. Its people deliver measurable and lasting results that help reinforce public trust in capital markets and enable clients to transform and thrive. Building on its 180-year history, Deloitte spans more than 150 countries and territories. Deloitte’s over 470,000 people worldwide work together every day to make an impact that matters.” That’s how the arch-globalist World Economic Forum describes one of its closest corporate partners.
Deloitte specifically provides hiring advice to its corporate clients via its “Human Capital Consulting” services. It touts its “data-driven approaches” as key tools to help companies recruit “new talent.”
Here's what else the Justice Department in an Aug. 25 news release said Deloitte was doing while shaping corporate workrooms around the world:
“The United States alleged that Deloitte took race or sex into account when making hiring, promotion, and staffing decisions to achieve progress toward non-public race and sex-based workforce composition goals. Business units within Deloitte received monthly summaries tracking the demographic goals within the unit, where representation or advancement toward the goal was highlighted in green, yellow, or red depending on whether the goal was exceeded, met or slightly missed, or significantly below the goal.”
The bias machinery was systematically constructed with rigid thoroughness. DOJ “alleged that Deloitte’s Partners, Principals and Managing Directors [PPMDs]were evaluated, in part, based on their contributions to helping Deloitte achieve its workforce composition goals, while, for a two-year period, approximately 150 of Deloitte’s most senior PPMDs compensation could be impacted if their business units did not meet demographic goals set by Deloitte,” the release continued.
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Deloitte agreed to a $21.5 million settlement to “resolve allegations that [it] violated the False Claims Act by failing to comply with anti-discrimination requirements in its federal contracts and discriminating against employees and applicants on the basis of their race or sex,” DOJ stated. The firm itself rolled out the usual caveats about “no admission of liability” and the need to “avoid the cost and distraction of protracted litigation” in explaining its decision to settle.
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And why wouldn’t it pay up? Deloitte “finished its fiscal [year] 2025 with revenue of $70.5 billion, a 5% increase,” The Motley Fool reported. You don’t need to be a math whiz to realize that $21.5 million is not even a drop in that large a money bucket. In fact, it is 0.0304964539% of $70.5 billion. That’s a fraction of a penny on every $100 Deloitte took in in one year alone.
Is this how you deter what the Justice Department clearly regards as blatant and widespread discrimination in the workplace?
It must be emphasized that Deloitte was not just another passenger on the DEI Work Express that rolled over so many qualified American job-seekers in the past decade or so. It actively built that runaway train that now dominates the major corporate environment.
Putting a Credentialed Brand Name on DEI ‘Data’
In 2022, Deloitte “announced the launch of the DEI Institute, created to pursue sustained equity and belonging for all,” a corporate release proudly boasted. “The Institute plans to provide cutting-edge research, bold points of view, and impactful events that can help business and community leaders drive meaningful change in workforces, marketplaces, and society.”
Deloitte openly touted its actions as an essential part of those “leading professional services” it provides to all those Fortune Global 500 companies it advises.
“Two years after making ambitious statements and goals, many companies continue to grapple with how to confront and take steps toward dismantling systemic inequities in their workforces and the communities they serve,” Joanne Stephane, executive director of the DEI Institute, was quoted as saying. “There is a continued need to provide actionable, data-based research to support organizations in advancing toward equitable outcomes in their decision making.”
Deloitte constantly cooked up data “proving” that DEI in the workplace improved corporate performance and profits. It goes without saying that these “facts” are highly subjective. How do you truly quantify the following statement? “Research shows that diversity of thinking is a wellspring of creativity, enhancing innovation by about 20 percent. It also enables groups to spot risks, and smooths the implementation of decisions by creating buy-in and trust,” the company stated in a 2018 “sponsored content” article published by The Wall Street Journal titled “Eight Powerful Truths About Diversity and Inclusion.”
Yahoo Finance in 2019 cited a report co-produced by the Alliance for Board Diversity and Deloitte on increased female and minority representation on corporate boards to again massage conjecture into stone-cold business truth. “The research adds to a growing set of data relied upon, in part, to postulate that firms with gender-diverse boards outperform their more homogenous counterparts,” Yahoo wrote.
The article described how influential this credentialed DEI “fact-finding” as practiced by a big name like Deloitte could be.
“This year, the (sic) California's legislature used similar data to require diverse boards by law, becoming the first state in the nation to adopt statutory quotas for female directorships within publicly-traded companies,” the outlet noted.
It’s the same con job one finds throughout the credentialed progressive nexus today. A partisan Big Media funds “independent professional fact checkers” to disprove any allegations of bias in its ranks. Leftist government officials, educators, and news entities cite “respected hate watch groups” who pay fringe radicals under the table to pose as a dire threat in order to define all political opponents as dangerous extremists.
But in this case the damage is far more ubiquitous. Millions of Americans are being willfully denied gainful employment in harsh economic times due to a transparently loaded progressive cultural agenda artificially installed into the job market. The people who did this can be identified. Yet as of now they have faced no genuinely substantial repercussions. And so the rot in the workplace will go on.
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