On Talking Politics At Work (“Let’s Kick That To HR, Right?”)
A month before supposedly “the most consequential election in human history,” what’s happening inside the offices and cubicles?
We will get most of our information for this post from here:
There are a lot of interesting pull-quotes in the first section of that post regarding politics at work and how prevalent it is — I don’t mean office politics, but rather people discussing national politics and ideology while on the clock — and here is one to look at:
For instance, compared to workers who encounter general conflict, those who have experienced a political altercation are:
5.6x as likely to say their productivity is impacted
4.9x as likely to say their mental health is impacted
3.5x as likely to say their…
