For or against weapons, anti or pro abortion, trust or distrust in vaccines. These notices, Facebook employees are asked to keep to themselves. Meta Group’s personnel manager, Lori Goler, once again gave a clear instruction to the staff: no overly political discussions within the company.
Respectful and productive discussions.
It is through an internal note, revealed by Fortune, that the employees were warned. The US media had access to screenshots of the announcement on Tuesday, December 6 of the new “requirements in terms of community participation.”
“We do this to ensure that internal discussions remain respectful, productive, and allow us to focus. It comes with a trade-off: We will no longer be able to allow all kinds of expression at work, but we think it’s the right thing to do for the long-term health of our internal community.” note.
Taboo topics for better concentration
With this decision, the Meta group wants to clean up exchanges in the workplace. A similar instruction had circulated in June. The goal was to ease tensions between employees when the United States Supreme Court had just abolished the right to abortion in the United States.
Contacted by TechCrunch, a spokesperson still assures that the company encourages open discussions and everyone’s points of view. As long as it is done with respect and inclusion. He points out that these taboo topics are primarily a way to keep distractions as low as possible for employees to work properly.
This need for employees to fully concentrate on their duties comes on the heels of a huge wave of layoffs. On December 9, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp announced the removal of 11,000 posts. In the days that followed, emails were sent informing staff of her dismissal, some of them in the middle of the night during her maternity leave.
Source: BFM TV
