Wells Fargo has discreetly deleted his DEI page detailing a long history of diversity and inclusion dating back to the 1800s

The company’s website now calls the program such as “inclusion and accessibility” and offers a multitude of other modifications.

In February, Wells Fargo said that it would only require hiring managers to envisage a diverse list of candidates for higher level positions, but which seemed to be the only major change in its Dei program, Bloomberg reported. (On August 15, the demonstrators demanded that the company restore the requirement, as well as its environmental commitments, according to WCNC Charlotte.)

The same month, Wells Fargo also seemed to withdraw from its website a section on the long history of the company with diversity and inclusion, which honored its work with the first national organization for lesbians, its support for the Japanese-American organized in the American concentration camps and its support in Spanish, which dates back to the 1800s.

Then, at the end of May, the Dei’s destination page of Wells Fargo, the sub-page and the related content disappeared from its website. Although the company has used to openly display texts on the progress of diversity, equity and inclusion, praising its annual dei report, the evaluation of racial actions and the analysis of remuneration actions, this information no longer appeared on its website; HR Brew has recovered the information deleted via the Wayback Machine Archives.

The site has also already shared information on its DEI advice that has been developed to “support our trade routes and international managers to help implement programs and initiatives”, but the company has not responded when the advice still exists. The resource networks of Wells Fargo employees (often called ERG) seem to be active and information about them is always available.

Ebony Thomas, who was appointed chief of Dei in May 2024, still oversees the efforts of Wells Fargo Dei, according to his LinkedIn. However, the company seems to have publicly kept aspects of Dei which, according to some legal experts, could be less risky, in particular the recruitment of veterans and military spouses, supporting disabled workers and its neurodiversity program, which was created in 2020.

It is far from last fall, when Wells Fargo called Dei “a commercial imperative”. However, society has already had difficulties with Dei. In 2022, he was criticized for a policy of employment of performative diversity which led to false interviews, reported the New York Times. His CEO, Charles Scharf, had also been criticized for comments he made in 2020 on the search for black talents.

Wells Fargo did not respond to requests for comments.

This report was initially published by HR BREW.