Clark: Companies must tell employees not to bring politics to work
Suzanne Clark · How optimism fuels the economy (U.S. Chamber of Commerce CEO Suzanne Clark) | Masters of Scale · Apr 26, 2024 · at 15:15
Suzanne Clark, CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, discusses workplace culture tensions and how corporate leaders should manage political and social activism in the office.
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“And my personal view is that we have to tell people you can't, right? We're a fifty-fifty country. You think you know what the person in the next cubicle thinks or the next Zoom box, but you might be wrong, right? And so how do we evolve to a place where we can respect That people want to be community activists or political activists and give them time or space to do that, but help evolve to a place where you can't bring all of your pieces to work and have it be the only outlet for that.”
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