Hundreds of firms recently have been reassessing their DEI programs after the Supreme Court ruled against race-based college admissions in June, prominent business executive resistance and technology layoffs impacting associated employees, according to the NYT. Many businesses are updating their programs to be less aggressive in order to avoid pushback and criticism.

For instance, some human resource workers have pushed their DEI initiatives “under the radar,” Harvard DEI expert Frank Dobbin told the NYT. Business leaders have also been talking about how to implement DEI “in a less in-your-face way” at recent conferences he has gone to.

[As I wrote earlier, this is not new. Texas passed a law forbidding its public universities from spending money on DEI programs, so the University of Texas changed the titles of the programs to “inclusion.” — Ed]