United Kingdom, Feb. 6 -- Google has dropped its diversity recruitment goals.

The tech giant has scrapped its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) recruitment targets - which included employing more people from underrepresented groups - following an annual review of its own corporate policies, with other DEI programmes also being assessed.

A spokesperson told the BBC: "We're committed to creating a workplace where all our employees can succeed and have equal opportunities.

"We've updated our [annual investor report] language to reflect this, and as a federal contractor our teams are also evaluating changes required following recent court decisions and executive orders on this topic."

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