A major part of "politics at work" is actually politics about the workplace -- see also, the recent Basecamp kerfuffle, which turned out to be about actions tak

A major part of "politics at work" is actually politics about the workplace -- see also, the recent Basecamp kerfuffle, which turned out to be about actions taken by employees in the office. Trying to ban politics is well and good, but what happens when the politics are about things that happened in your office? Politics are inevitable. Companies ought to try to manage discussion realistically, rather than covering their eyes and ignoring the problem.