After Donald Trumps recent win US companies started doing some weird stuff - setting-up counseling programs therapy pets and even lego-filled rooms (which looks more like a kids play-center than a workplace)
Half of the people in our workplaces are very upset today
Some businesses went over-board: The Guardian sent out support-program memos students got therapy ducks and certain stores just closed down for a day. Its like they forgot that this is still a work-place not a self-help retreat
The whole thing shows a big work-place split - while white-collar workers get time-off and special treatment blue-collar staff (who mostly backed Trump) dont get these perks. This kind of stuff just makes the rich-poor divide worse; especially since about 67% of voters said the economy wasnt doing good on Nov 5th
Companies are losing around $2bn each day from low productivity and workers staying home which is super-bad for business. The funny thing is: while company leaders think theyre doing great with this stuff (like 84% say they know what theyre doing) only half the workers agree. Some tech-savvy companies tried banning political talk altogether - but that didnt work out so well when places like Coinbase lost lots of staff back in 2020
Smart companies need to find a middle-ground: support workers who might be affected by new policies but dont turn the office into a therapy-center. Political fights at work arent new but treating one side different than the other just makes everything worse