Corporate Politics Debate

"No politics" is politics. It may even be the worst kind.Companies are all about making money, and politics is one way to achieve that. Saying "no politics" is like asking employees to not care about money, it is not going to happen, and there is an implicit "but it doesn't apply to me".

It's not "politics" when the leader of a company is fundamentally against your existence.It's only politics when it's "other people's problems I don't care about", it seems.

I guess this is the reason lot of corporates try to stay out of politics. Because once you set a precedence then people will use that as to push their own political agendas. I personally don't like the slippery slope argument since it's very lazy and justifies inaction in many cases. But at the same time when I see news like this, I just wonder how long it will take two different subgroups trying push their own conflicting agendas and how the company should react in such a case.

Companies are literally political entities.

Companies are not divorced from politics or reality no matter how much they want to be. Trying to be non-political is a political act and one that is usually means "I benefit from the status quo, please don't change anything". It's the corporate version of the white guying saying "I don't see color" when he means "I don't want to think about issues of race"

The idea of companies caring about politics is usually followed quite closely by corruption in most cultures.By all means, they can care about politics- but they cant force me to care about their politics and they should not be as reactionary as they are when I take my business elsewhere.I am just a dude who likes computers. I don’t need to shoulder problems from half a world away on behalf of billion-dollar corporations.

Of course companies play politics to tilt the market in their favor. What I mean is that companies don't often take political stances like "we encourage all our employees to vote X" or "we believe candidate y is the right fellow" or even "we support z ballot initiative" as a company position. Companies might do that one hand removed, but almost never do it directly as a company policy. An example too would be "we support black lives matter". Some comp

Especially given the importance of politics to corporations - they are allowed to politic, but employees aren't?

I think you’re conflating issues relevant to the business of the company, which might be considered political, and political issues which are irrelevant to the business of the company. The former is okay, the latter is not. The subject of OP is the latter.

There are two types of companies:- those pushing an overt political agenda- those pushing a political agenda they don't advertiseIf you prefer clandestine back-room dealing to front-room blogpost announcements because they aren't all in-your-face about it, that's a fair preference. But don't fall into the trap of believing there's such a thing as a company pushing no agenda; companies are made up of people, politics is the interaction of people.Every C