Imagine you are the new CEO. Suppose he doesn't buy into any of the DEI that prior regimes put in place such as quotas for females and URMs, non-binary bathrooms, and ge----o-like DEI compliance officers spying on the organization.
It seems like a layout would be a perfect time to get rid of all of those positions and bad policies and take an even bigger restructuring charge... still some internal 'woke' people will not like this at all. They will leak the information to the press and try and expose the CEO & undermine every one of those cuts.