Microsoft will not publish a diversity and inclusion report in 2025, bringing to an end a run of annual disclosures that has formed a consistent part of the company’s public reporting on workforce demographics for several years.

In October of 2024, Microsoft published a 44-page report detailing the diversity of the company’s massive workforce.

The dense dispatch included charts showing the company’s demographics over time, pay comparisons for different groups of employees and even offered data about the types of people who were leaving Microsoft.

At the time, Microsoft’s chief diversity officer called the public filing “our most global and transparent report to date.” She also noted that it was Microsoft’s sixth annual global and diversity report. That extended a streak of overall Microsoft reports on workforce demographics that dated to at least 2015.

That streak is now over.

Microsoft has confirmed to Game File that it will not publish a diversity and inclusion report in 2025, telling the publication. “We are not doing a traditional report this year as we’ve evolved beyond that to formats that are more dynamic and accessible—stories, videos, and insights that show inclusion in action,” Microsoft’s chief communications officer, Frank Shaw, told Gamefile reporter Stephen Totilo in an emailed statement.

He added: “Our mission and commitment to our culture and values remain unchanged: empowering every person and organisation to achieve more.”

Back in March, Google updated its Responsible AI and Human Centred Technology (RAI-HCT) team webpage, quietly removing references to diversity or equity. The page previously made mention of “marginalized communities,” “diverse,” “underrepresented groups,” and “equity,” all of which have since been removed.

Some terms have been replaced with more general language such as “varied.”

Meta has also confirmed a shift in direction earlier in the year (around the time of President Trump’s inauguration). In an internal memo, the company announced it would roll back its DEI efforts, citing a changing legal environment.

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Jannelle Gale, the company’s human resources VP, reportedly wrote that the current landscape had placed DEI initiatives under increased scrutiny and that even the term DEI is now “charged”.

The memo referenced a 2023 decision by the US Supreme Court to reverse affirmative action efforts across academic institutions, a move that traditionally aimed to mitigate the effects of systematic discrimination by supporting better opportunities for socioeconomically disadvantaged groups.

Together, these developments point to a clear change in how some of the world’s largest technology companies approach DEI. While trying their best across the board to position this as some kind of good thing using whatever verbal gymnastics they can – it’s hard to believe when they’re squeaking these changes out the door clearly hoping that no one will notice.