In the race to attract the best employees, American companies have always played to win. Apple pays millions to poach star executives and Nvidia spares no expense to hire top AI researchers. Why? Because hiring the best and brightest on skill and ability is the secret sauce to American innovation.
Companies like Best Buy label these hiring targets as “inclusive,” but the truth is that they hurt everyone, especially the very people they claim to help.Move over schools, DEI is taking over the world of video games By framing her nomination as the fulfillment of a racial and gender hiring target, Biden unfairly saddled her with the label of being a “diversity hire.” She doesn’t deserve that.
These policies don’t just hurt employees. Shareholders, too, are paying the price for these racial and gender hiring targets in the form of lower stock returns.