Experience in my industry (commercial nuclear power) is that the DEI hires were mostly managers and HR people. The technical work was largely unaffected, but we had some good people quit when things started getting too woke not to mention the general degradation of policies and management quality, which was essentially slow but steady.
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I work nuclear outages. Go to California once a year and the DEI stuff is on full display in the admin buildings. In the shops mostly only on display on the computer monitors because they make IT put it there.
Exactly, it's all the little things like that. Eventually though all that waste does slowly degrade the work environment in my experience at least.
I guess that depends on which shop though. Could just be my experience.