Beyond, Inc.
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Beyond is Medium Risk. The company often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. The company implements race and identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. Beyond occasionally embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues at times. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.
View Full Corporate Bias Ratings ReportHas canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.
Bed Bath & Beyond stopped selling MyPillow products in response to Mike Lindell’s pro-Trump statements (1)(2). The company received a score of 60 on the 2025 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a political stakeholder group. Beyond recruits employees based on sexual identity issues. The company discriminates against vendors that do not promote divisive sex and gender policies, indicating it prioritizes sexual issues over merit (3)(4).
Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.
Beyond’s HRC 2025 CEI rating indicates the company will not donate to non-religious charities unless they embrace controversial sexual identity policies (1)(2). The company’s charitable giving guidelines require that organizations abide by its nondiscrimination policy, including on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, thereby excluding some religious charities (3).
Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.
Beyond’s HRC 2025 CEI rating indicates the company forces employees to attend multiple, controversial trainings on gender identity, sexual orientation, transgender issues, and divisive racial ideology. The company provides gender transition guidelines for its employees and a specific benefits guide with a comprehensive explanation of transgender services funded by the company (1)(2). Beyond requires all new employees to attend unconscious bias trainings (3). The company does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (4). Overstock.com, a subsidiary of Beyond.com, appears to prioritize diversity over merit in its recruitment and leadership composition. From its 2022 10K report: “Our commitments to improving diversity include 1) increasing the diversity of our team at all levels” (5).
Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.
Bed Bath & Beyond’s former CEO, Mark Triston, signed the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion pledge, which includes a commitment to promote DEI through bias education training in the workplace, strategize on DEI programs/initiatives with other signatories, and engage boards of directors when developing and evaluating DEI strategies (1)(2). Overstock published a statement in support of Black Lives Matter and expanded its employee time off policy to include “efforts to combat racial injustice” (3)(4). Bed Bath & Beyond supports ESG within its business practices, “remain[ing] steadfast in our commitment to our robust ESG strategy” (5). The company plans to onboard a Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer and plans to implement conscious inclusion training for VPs and above (6).
Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.
Beyond, Inc. has not used corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (1).
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