Pfizer revises its DEI webpage to emphasize importance of ‘merit’

Pfizer on Thursday made vital modifications to its range, fairness, and inclusion webpage, as corporations throughout completely different industries search to reposition their insurance policies and messaging amid President Trump’s dismantling of DEI initiatives.

The pharma firm now emphasizes advantage all through its webpage. Pfizer has modified the title of the web page from “Variety, Fairness, and Inclusion” to “Benefit-Based mostly Variety, Fairness, and Inclusion,” and added a sentence to its introductory paragraph: “Our tradition of range, fairness and inclusion relies on advantage—one the place arduous work, expertise, and contributions drive success, and limitations to alternative are eliminated.”

In the meantime, the corporate has deleted and changed different language on the web page. It eliminated a bit that linked to and described a racial fairness evaluation that the corporate commissioned a 3rd social gathering to conduct in 2023.