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I'm so glad no one at my current technology workplace discusses politics anywhere-- not in Slack, Email, nor Conference calls. I literally haven't heard a single political opinion at work, and I freakin love it!

I previously worked at Unity Technologies (3d game engine company) and as well as a CRM Consultancy, and I was amazed by how much time people spent arguing their political agenda. It was a major contributing factor of why I left both places. I had this feeling of "Why are these people chatting about things irrelevant to our work, while I am working? They should be working too-- they're paid to work, not chat & check their slack feed for 30-60 minutes a day about politics"

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> I'm so glad no one at my current technology workplace discusses politics anywhere-- not in Slack, Email, nor Conference calls. I literally haven't heard a single political opinion at work, and I freakin love it!

Honestly, this seems boring as hell.

I've often discussed politics, religion, and all sorts of things with coworkers, and we've often disagreed. And then we went about our day working together, or having a beer after work. No problems. It's just part of normal regular socializing, and I'd argue that socializing with co-workers is somewhat important for a healthy workplace.

Excessively pushing politics is a different thing of course, but "absolutely no politics allowed" has just a kind of boring superficiality to it. And also leaves us with the rather tricky question on what "politics" is, exactly.

Boring? That's a funny assumption. The presence of politics is required for work to be fun? Sounds like a nightmare to me.

I love the lack of politics at work. It really makes it more pleasant-- almost an escape from an otherwise over-politically involved society. I can't turn on the news or open the browser (sometimes even IRC) without politics seeping in.

It allows me to stay focused on work, not on what people think about/how I might be judged on my non-work related opinions. Nor that there could be favoritism based on such things.

It levels the playing field.

There are numerous articles discussing any non-liberal voices resulting in people being let-go/fired at various California-based technology companies.

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