Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts

Re:Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts by shadowgovt on Monday December 08, 2025 @10:20AM (#46193223)

Not really. This is one of the things Google got right; organize your company so founders have a controlling interest and it doesn't matter fundamentally what the investors think, they can't steer the company.

At best, they are trading baseball cards with your corporate logo on them.

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Re:Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts by pfdietz on Monday December 08, 2025 @10:28AM (#46193346)

> At best, they are trading baseball cards with your corporate logo on them.

Those baseball cards also come with some rights. The people running the company have a fiduciary responsibility to them. They cannot, for example, use the company as a piggybank.

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Re:Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts by shadowgovt on Monday December 08, 2025 @11:03AM (#46193892)

But especially in the case of Google, those rights do not extend to setting the values, direction, or priorities of the company.

Nobody outside of the founders has enough of a controlling stake for that to be practically possible.

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Re:Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts by p0w3n3d on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @05:53AM (#46203500)

I'm speaking about ESG which became somehow mandatory for investors at some point of time. Not mandatory in legal, but cultural sense

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