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Is banning discussion of religion in the workplace a political/religious stance?

Or is it just an attempt to be decent and get people to do the thing they were hired to do, which is to make their investors more fucking money? As a shareholder in several tech companies, I don't like the idea of people having discussions like these on my dime. How many bugs that were never fixed with Youtube Music, for example, could have been fixed if there weren't shit heads sitting around having flame wars on my fucking dime?



> Is banning discussion of religion in the workplace a political/religious stance?

(Please forgive any flawed logic below - I assure you it's an oversight. I'm posting this in good faith.)

I'd say yes, but basically in the same way Coinbase's band on political speech in the office is a stance.

Consider religious people whose theology holds that they should attempt to convert everybody in their circles, even their professional circles.

It seems to me that banning that is tantamount to saying either (a) their theology is wrong, or (b) it's not wrong but the employer is resisting it regardless, or (c) the business has no place for employees holding those beliefs.


It’s actually (d) they can do that just not in the office or during working hours.




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