Dozens of big employers including Microsoft Corp., Accenture PLC, HP Inc. and Airbnb Inc. are reaffirming promises to recruit, hire and help refugees.

The roughly 50 companies had been part of the Partnership for Refugees, an Obama administration push aimed at expanding work opportunity and resources for refugees in the U.S. and abroad. Now, with a new administration in charge, the group’s members have decided to continue their plans without the government’s help.

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