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To clarify my point: if you open the gates to the marketplace of ideas, make sure it's an actual marketplace.
[1] https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2018/10/08/stem-gems-give-girl...
When was it ever okay to discuss politics at work?
We're not just talking about the stereotype of people standing around a water cooler declaring affiliations and throwing political talking points past each other.
When was it ever okay to discuss politics at work?
Whenever you have reasonable adults working together? I think I’ve, on appropriate occasion, discussed politics with friends and colleagues at every workplace I’ve ever been at. [Edit: some senior leadership] openly supports the DNC and has commented to that effect at town halls. To pretend that people are apolitical or to ban all political discussions because some people can’t seem to handle disagreements in a profe…
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Maybe it's a SV thing? I saw some of the documents from a recent lawsuit against Google and was pretty astounded by the sorts of things that people were willing to not only say but actually put into writing where anyone on their intranet could see (things along the lines of "I won't let anyone on my team if they have political belief X or voted for Y")
That seems to make sense if you consider how political beliefs and preferred candidates correlate with given personality traits. Why is it stigmatized? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/study-predicts...
When was it ever okay to discuss politics at work?
It's not a bad thing in my mind, it's heavy handed at times, I can see how it would rub some traditionalists the wrong way in an extreme way. If you held some form of conservative view then you'd almost certainly be a pariah in our company/studio.
But left-leaning politics is definitely promoted and discussed in the office.
When was it ever okay to discuss politics at work?
Maybe it's a SV thing? I saw some of the documents from a recent lawsuit against Google and was pretty astounded by the sorts of things that people were willing to not only say but actually put into writing where anyone on their intranet could see (things along the lines of "I won't let anyone on my team if they have political belief X or voted for Y")
Like any such environment where conformity is the norm, it works until someone fails to conform.
I'm sure everyone who has to earn a living to support their family will appreciate this move. Nothing is worse than politics at work, where you may lose your paycheck if you don't align with the correct factions.
I'm sure everyone who has to earn a living to support their family will appreciate this move. Nothing is worse than politics at work, where you may lose your paycheck if you don't align with the correct factions.
On the other hand your company telling you not to is a whole other situation. I'm not sure a policy really solves much. Anyone who wouldn't think twice before discussing such things ... probabbly isn't going to read / care about the policy.
It's one of those rules that no matter how well intentioned, I'm not sure it works well as a policy.