The ODP Corporation
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The ODP Corporation scored a 100 on the 2023 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a political stakeholder group. By complying with the HRC’s controversial demands, ODP increases the risk of dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders. The company covers transgender-related medical costs for its employees and their children and provides specific sexual orientation and gender identity-based benefits. It also uses sex and gender ideology criteria in employee recruitment, vendor selection, marketing, and philanthropic support. ODP forces employees to undergo multiple ideological trainings and uses its reputation, corporate funds, and political influence to support controversial sex and gender ideologies, organizations, and legislation. In one instance, an employee tried to stop a customer from printing anti-abortion fliers, but management intervened and apologized. The company paused advertising on Laura Ingraham's Fox News show in 2018 due to controversy surrounding the Parkland shooting. ODP signed an open letter in support of the Equality Act and is a corporate partner of the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce. For these reasons, ODP receives a High Risk rating.