[hkarthik]

It's unfortunate, but walkouts and other employee activism around social justice can achieve the opposite effect. The marginalized leave because they don't feel heard, and potential new hires who might represent change stop applying or responding to recruiting attempts because of the company's tarnished reputation.

Over time this leads to increased marginalization and concentration of the vary behavior that provoked the activist response in the first place.

The only thing that actually works is board level action and commitment to following through on the change. Boards can hold execs accountable.

[SquishyPanda23]

Also the employees who agree with the sentiment but find the tactics to be naive (or worse) become less likely to speak out.