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How to manage politics in the workplace

Polarisation affects bosses as well as employees

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Illustration: Paul Blow

However much you might want to keep politics out of business, politics has other plans for you. Events have a habit of sucking organisations into controversy. In 2022 Disney was caught up in a very public row with the state of Florida over a bill about teaching sexuality and gender identity in public schools. Earlier this year Google fired some employees who had taken part in a sit-in to protest against the tech firm’s cloud-computing contract with Israel. University administrators have conspicuously struggled to manage the passions aroused by the war in Gaza.

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This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Bearing polarisation”

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