Re:The 37signals Employee Handbook
by charlotte-fyi on Friday January 19, 2024 @12:39PM
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I think the issue is that forms of workplace organizing and labor disputes that might fall short of protected union activity under the NLRB are dismissed as being "political", rather than there being too much chat about political news on Slack.
I have zero interest in politics, if I had to mentally filter dozens of lines of chat about XYZ political topic when I'm trying to find something technical that would bother me. It wouldn't offend me but it would have a negative affect on productivity due to spending more time finding things.
If a group of folks with a common interest want to talk about politics privately that seems reasonable to me. That would be comparable to going out for lunch in a non-remote setting, chatting in the parking lot or an empty conference room during a break.