People in this thread are trying to come up with some HR policies which can help mitigate the problem, such as "never discuss politics at work", but that, in turn, means not talking about presidential elections which were, objectively, the most important event of 2016. (quick test -- "what's important/surprising/almost impossible really happened in 2016?" -- we all know the answer, and it's not "Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill met in Cuba", or "Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff was impeached").
It's hard to make people not to talk about main event of the year, happening in their country, in real-time, and probably such ban is counterproductive.
Thinking about it a bit more, the underlying problem here is not politics per se, but exteremely polarized society. Not sure this is something fixable with HR directives.
It's hard to make people not to talk about main event of the year, happening in their country, in real-time, and probably such ban is counterproductive.
Thinking about it a bit more, the underlying problem here is not politics per se, but exteremely polarized society. Not sure this is something fixable with HR directives.