Microsoft won’t publish a diversity and inclusion report this year

Company says it has “evolved” its D&I approach, as it skips its annual data-filled report

From Microsoft’s 2024 D&I report

In October of 2024, Microsoft published a 44-page page report detailing the diversity of the company’s massive workforce. The dense dispatch included charts showing the company’s demographics over time, pay comparisons for different groups of employees and even offered data about the types of people who were leaving Microsoft.

At the time, Microsoft’s chief diversity officer called the public filing “our most global and transparent report to date.”

She also noted that it was Microsoft’s sixth annual global and diversity report. That extended a streak of overall Microsoft reports on workforce demographics that dated to at least 2015.

That streak is over.

Microsoft has confirmed to Game File that it will not publish a diversity and inclusion (D&I) report in 2025.

“We are not doing a traditional report this year as we’ve evolved beyond that to formats that are more dynamic and accessible—stories, videos, and insights that show inclusion in action,” Microsoft’s chief communications officer, Frank Shaw, told me in an emailed statement.

He added: “Our mission and commitment to our culture and values remain unchanged: empowering every person and organization to achieve more.”

In late October I had reported that Microsoft had excluded the word “diversity” from the 2025 versions of two major reports to shareholders that previously promoted the term and the company’s work in that area. I noted that it had previously touted its D&I reports to shareholders and had not done so this year.

And those reports, as you’ll see below, were full of some insightful data about Microsoft and how the company had been changing.