Strategies for Managing Political Expression in the Workplace

Due to this year’s historic election, concern over employee political expression has been on the rise.

We spoke with communications leaders at Fortune 1000 companies representing four different major industries—financial services, healthcare, retail, and food service—to understand how organizations are dealing with employee political expression before and after voting day.

Included in these findings are takeaways such as

  • How corporations are defining political content in the workplace, and how that presents in policies and documents
  • Guidance on external speech on behalf of the company
  • How workplace expression fits into existing, and evolving, business models
  • 5 actions executives can take now to alleviate some of the pressures and risk around political expression

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