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There's also a tide to make the workforce more geographical diverse, especially and famously (https://basecamp.com/books/remote https://basecamp.com/books/remot
by hirundo 6y ago
There's also a tide to make the workforce more geographical diverse, especially and famously (https://basecamp.com/books/remote https://basecamp.com/books/remote) at Basecamp. So companies are less likely to be restricted to Silicon Valley type folks unless hires are filtered by politics.
Otherwise to be more geographically diverse implies becoming more ideologically diverse. Asking staff to largely separate politics from work is a rational reaction to that, a kind of social grease. A more diverse workforce needs more grease.
- throwawaysea 6y agoSeeking ideological heterogeneity is the truest and most desirable form of diversity. Kudos to Basecamp for recognizing that they can achieve this via geographical diversity. On the other hand, I've also seen this go the other way. Many larger tech companies like Google effectively enforce a one-size-fits-all set of company policies across all their locations. Effectively, the political culture of their headquarters is forced on all the satellite offices, squashing any potential for ideological diversity that may result from geographical diversity. In the end, I think it comes down to having the right leaders who genuinely value true diversity instead of just skin-deep diversity that is popular today.