Weber Shandwick
Corporate Bias Rating
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Weber Shandwick 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. Weber Shandwick 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.
Weber Shandwick has not publicly canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (1).
Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.
Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.
Weber Shandwick appears to prioritize diversity over merit in its business structure through the establishment of gender and racial targets for its recruitment. From its News & Insights Page, “In 2021, we set aggressive goals to increase diversity…we surpassed our representation hiring goals with BIPOC employees representing: 25% of the U.S. workforce, 32% of U.S. hires, 53% of U.S. interns, 62% of our inaugural NYC Co-Op class, 75% of intern to employee conversion offers in our New York Co-Op program” (1). Weber Shandwick does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (2)(3).
Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.
Weber Shandwick opposed various state and local legislation intended to protect parental rights, girls’ sports, bathroom facilities, and gendered spaces (1)(2). The company supports DEI within its business practices, employing a DEI Council and a DEI Officer (3)(4). Otherwise, there are no publicly known cases of Weber Shandwick using its reputation to advance ideological causes or policies (5).
Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.
Board Bias
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