Strategy | EDI isn't going anywhere in 2026

Last year, the noise around equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) within UK workplaces grew louder, and more polarised.

Donald Trump during his presidency has decried diversity programmes, calling them discriminatory and claiming that they drive down performance (without evidence). This caused some large US employers such as Amazon, McDonald’s and Meta to roll back their EDI programmes, bowing down to the presidents’ rhetoric.