Elastic

California
Software and Services

Corprate Bias Ratings

Risk Level:

Rating - Caution
Medium Risk

Elastic, formerly Elasticsearch N. V., has not publicly terminated employees or canceled contracts based on viewpoints, however the company does not protect employees from viewpoint discrimination. The company promotes LGBTQ and DE&I ideologies, and has openly matched donations to the ACLU and organizations supporting "anti-racism work." For these reasons, Elastic receives a Medium Risk rating.

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Rationale
Corporate Weaponization
Criteria

Has denied service to customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level
Rationale

Elastic has not publicly fired customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs.

Criteria

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level
N/A
Rationale

Elastic does not publicly disclose its charitable giving policy.

Criteria

Employment policies fail to protect against discrimination based on political affiliation/views and/or religion.

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Rationale

Elastic does not protect employees against viewpoint discrimination (1).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy
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Uses corporate reputation to support ideological causes and/or organizations hostile to freedom of expression.

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Rationale

Elastic is a member of the Business Coalition for the Equality Act (1). The company has used its blog to publish articles spotlighting the LGBTQ movement and sympathizing with the BLM movement (2)(3). The company also hosts unconscious bias trainings for interviewers, and DE&I trainings during employee onboarding. Elastic conducts an Affirmative Action Program, in which the company analyzes hiring and promotions on the bases of race and gender (4).

Criteria

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

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Rationale

In light of the 2020 BLM movement, Elastic announced that it would match donations to “anti-racism work,” including the ACLU (1)(2) .

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Uses corporate political contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

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N/A
Rationale

Elastic does not operate a PAC.

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July 13, 2023

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