Companies traditionally try to keep politics out of the workplace, yet a Gartner 2020 survey of more than 500 employees showed that 44% of employees have actively avoided coworkers because of their political beliefs.
Employers that take sides or public stances of political issues risk decreased employee engagement. Analysis of Gartner research shows that employee engagement can drop by one-third when employees are disappointed with their employer’s stance on the societal and political debates of the day.
