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To be fair, I think peoples' experience with this varies (perhaps depending on which industry they're applying to work in as well as location), but I'm not the

To be fair, I think peoples' experience with this varies (perhaps depending on which industry they're applying to work in as well as location), but I'm not the only one reporting this. Here's a few recent threads. https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/yoilsu/workplace_is_asking_employees_sexual_preference/ https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/yoilsu/workplace_i... https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/10qd9dv/why_must_companies_know_my_sexual_preference_to/ https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/10qd9dv/why_must_... https://www.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/w7u7de/when_did_my_sexual_preference_and_age_become/ https://www.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/w7u7de/when...

mock-possum 4y ago
man I'm really pretty skeptical - in your own personal experience, let's say you've applied to 100 jobs, how many of those would you expect to explicitly ask you about your sexuality?
- logicalmonster 4y ago
  Questions about sexuality are less common than the race and disability questions, but I've seen it often enough to be noticeable, maybe around 30% of jobs I've come across. That said, I think it varies based on industry and location. Some people might never see it and some people might see it all of the time. But there's enough people reporting seeing it through some of the threads I posted to make this credible. That being said, my personal preference is for jobs to focus on stuff relevant to work. Race has no bearing on your resume or skills, neither does gender, neither does sexuality. A disability might have some relevance to a job, but it should not be relevant at the job application stage, and workers are already legally protected for reasonable accommodations once they get a job, so there's no point in asking that on an application anyway. At best, it's a waste of time, and at worst, it invites potential discrimination for disabled job seekers. A job application should essentially be 3 fields: name, contact info, and a file upload for the resume. Actually, that can just be boiled down to one field because a resume should already have those things.

mock-possum 4y ago

man I'm really pretty skeptical - in your own personal experience, let's say you've applied to 100 jobs, how many of those would you expect to explicitly ask you about your sexuality?

logicalmonster 4y ago
Questions about sexuality are less common than the race and disability questions, but I've seen it often enough to be noticeable, maybe around 30% of jobs I've come across. That said, I think it varies based on industry and location. Some people might never see it and some people might see it all of the time. But there's enough people reporting seeing it through some of the threads I posted to make this credible. That being said, my personal preference is for jobs to focus on stuff relevant to work. Race has no bearing on your resume or skills, neither does gender, neither does sexuality. A disability might have some relevance to a job, but it should not be relevant at the job application stage, and workers are already legally protected for reasonable accommodations once they get a job, so there's no point in asking that on an application anyway. At best, it's a waste of time, and at worst, it invites potential discrimination for disabled job seekers. A job application should essentially be 3 fields: name, contact info, and a file upload for the resume. Actually, that can just be boiled down to one field because a resume should already have those things.