Deloitte shows how the ‘woke’ workplace is destroying itself

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MATTHEW LYNN Mar 8, 2021 – 9.39am Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe now Already a subscriber? She championed the


cause of “respect, dignity and belonging for all”. She pushed for extra leave for “non-birthing parents”. She led a “mission on neurodiversity” for the company, and she brought in Gwyneth


Paltrow to introduce a mandatory “ketogenic plant-based diet” for the staff canteen. OK, I made that last one up. But the others were all policies pushed by Dimple Agarwal, Deloitte’s deputy


UK chief executive and its head of “people and purpose”. And yet now, she has resigned her leadership roles, after complaints from staff of bullying and harassment. Like Bill Michael at


KPMG, who told staff to “stop moaning”, she was toast as soon as the story broke. At this rate, there soon won’t be anyone left at the big audit and consulting companies. Loading... The


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