On July 21, the EEOC voted 2-1 to publish a proposed rule rescinding the EEO-1 report, along with the EEO-2 through EEO-6 collections and the recordkeeping requirements attached to them. The proposal now sits in a 30-day comment period that … Read More
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Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For, EEO-1 Data Explosion, IBM’s ‘Illegal DEI’ and Proxy Season Update
Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For Fortune released its 100 Best Companies to Work For a couple of weeks ago. It remains one of our preferred measures of external validation for corporate culture and employee sentiment for three reasons: (1) it … Read More
Board Diversity, Schrödinger’s DEI, and Accidental Transparency
If you were looking for a clean narrative arc in corporate America’s relationship with board diversity, I regret to inform you that you will instead be getting litigation, proxy fine print, and a small activist nonprofit with a very busy … Read More
Early 2026 Proxy Season: Disclosure Pullback Is Accelerating
It’s still very early in the 2026 proxy season—only 96 companies have filed proxies so far—but the direction of travel is already clear. The disclosure pullback we flagged last year is not only continuing, it’s accelerating across board diversity and … Read More
PeopleReturn Releases Board of Directors Diversity Dashboard
Today we released our new board of directors diversity dashboard, featuring race, gender, ethnicity, and LGBTQ data and insights for the boards of every S&P 500 company. The sortable dashboard, which will continue to be updated by our analysts in real-time, … Read More
PeopleReturn Releases EEO-1 Disclosure Dashboard
Today we released our public EEO-1 dashboard, featuring gender, race, ethnicity, and EEO-1 disclosure insights on hundreds of S&P 500 companies. In addition to noting which companies have and haven’t disclosed their report to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, … Read More