Deloitte US has asked employees working on government contracts to remove gender pronouns from their email signatures and ditched its wider diversity and inclusion programmes, in the latest sign of companies shifting their policies after the election of Donald Trump.
Consultants at the Big Four firm who work for the US government were asked last week to remove pronouns indicating their gender from emails sent externally, according to people familiar with the details.
In an email to staff in the firm’s roughly 15,000-strong government and public services practice, employees were asked to make the changes “to align with emerging government client practices and requirements”.