Microsoft, Meta, and sources say, Google, will not publish diversity reports and data in 2025; Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia released new diversity data in 2025
Other big tech companies including Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia have continued their annual disclosures this year even as the Trump administration cracks down on DEI.
Context & Ripple Effects
Large tech employers had made demographic disclosure a comparable industry practice through the mid-2010s, when Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon were among companies reporting workforce figures in parallel early cross-company diversity disclosures.
The split reverses some of the common-reporting direction established when Google, Apple, Microsoft, and others joined a coalition that committed to share demographic data a commitment to demographic-data sharing. Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia continuing to disclose now creates a visible divide in transparency rather than a sector-wide retreat.
First-order effects
- Microsoft and Meta will remove a recurring public measure of workforce diversity in 2025; Google is expected to do the same, according to sources. That limits year-over-year external comparison for those companies.
- Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia retain the immediate transparency distinction by publishing new data, giving employees, advocates, and other observers current disclosures from a smaller set of major peers.
Second-order effects
- The differing disclosure choices make peer benchmarking less consistent: companies that continue reporting can be compared with one another, while trends at non-reporting peers become harder to verify publicly.
- DEI scrutiny shifts from published demographic outcomes toward companies' broader statements and policies, reducing the common data baseline that earlier industry commitments sought to build.
Third-order effects
- If the split persists, voluntary diversity reporting could evolve from an industry norm into a company-by-company governance choice, weakening the comparability that made public reports useful as accountability tools.
- The outcome will test whether voluntary transparency survives unevenly under pressure: continued reporting by some large firms may preserve a benchmark, but it cannot substitute for consistent sector-wide data.
The trend: Big Tech is moving from broadly shared voluntary DEI disclosure toward a fragmented transparency regime in which reporting itself becomes a differentiator.