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The Elusiveness of Merit-Based Hiring

Patrick George/Ikon Images Since early 2025, organizations seeking to curry favor with the current U.S. administration have disavowed earlier commitments to workforce diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and proclaimed that their hiring practices are therefore meritocratic. But framing DEI and merit as antithetical dichotomies, as various executive orders have done, does not mean that abandoning […]

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Published: 4 August 2026
Source: MIT Sloan Management Review AI
Category: Research
Topics: Bias & fairness · Jobs & economy
Retrieved: 5 August 2026

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