Plenty of companies are reining in their rhetoric and in some cases action on issues such as sustainability and diversity.
Over the past decade, many corporations have at least professed to take a more active role in social issues, under pressure from their customers and, more importantly, employees.
After last year's Bud Light debacle, which was a real blow to its business, executives fear they'll be the next target of some anti-woke outcry.
For the fourth quarter of 2020, 131 companies mentioned ESG, and 34 mentioned DEI or diversity and inclusion.
This may be a great un-wokening, but maybe corporate America was actually never that committed to the idea in the first place.
Persons:
Paul Polman, It's, Naomi Wheeless, Eventbrite, Donald Trump, Larry Fink, George Floyd's, ESG, Andrew Jones, there's, Bud Light, influencer Dylan Mulvaney, haven't, Philip Mirvis, Bud, they'll, they'd, Jones, it's, Fink, FactSet, — we're, wasn't, Alison Taylor, University's, we've, Roe, Wade, Taylor, isn't, Dylan Mulvaney, Bud Light's, Kenneth Pucker, Emily Stewart
Organizations:
Unilever, Unilever wasn't, Unilever isn't, Companies, Business, Sporting Goods, Conference Board's ESG, Morningstar, Babson, AIG, Amazon, ExxonMobil, University's Stern School of Business, Anheuser, Busch, Fletcher School, Tufts University
Locations:
Plenty, America, ESG, New, Charlottesville