By Amii Barnard-Bahn2021-02-23T15:32:00+00:00
Five out of five
The lead up to the 2020 U.S. presidential election showed the potential for workplace disagreements over politics. The topic of the election led to over one-third of American workers either avoiding speaking to or working with a coworker, according to a survey by Gartner, and 44 percent of HR professionals reported intensified political volatility in the workplace (compared to 26 percent in 2016), a poll by the Society for Human Resource Management found.
The cost for healthy workplace cultures? Politics has always been an issue ripe for contention, but in the past two elections, divisions have become more extreme, less civil, and have negatively impacted working relationships which ultimately affects an organization’s culture and productivity.