Having diverse opinions in the workplace is important. Just like gender, should companies hire based on political affiliation?
I don’t think you should hire according to any metric besides skills. Otherwise you get caught in a trap bc there are infinite ways to measure diversity.
Agree.
If you hire based purely on skill you tend to get low performing teams full of arrogant pricks
I don’t think there are enough conservatives who even work in the STEM fields to make that a viable option. Research shows that people who have STEM degrees tend to lean to the left. Here’s an interesting breakdown of jobs by political party: http://verdantlabs.com/politics_of_professions/index.html
If you count Indians
You do not see the conservatives because they have learned to blend in.
People like to conflate the diversity issue. At the end of the day it's all about making the company look good so the public doesn't feel bad about using that company's services.
Should everything be fair in life for everyone, everywhere, every time? Is it actually? Will it ever be?
Ok, so when do we so that it's good enough, let's put this effort into something more important?
There were cases where a product or idea is launched well ahead of its times and the market is not ready to understand it...let alone adopt it.... they die. Idea may be great, the society and system is to busy with “me, myself and I”... and history shows that doesn’t really change without new side effects or new issues.
No. Political views aren't a protected class.
Neither are customers. Isn’t that the point of the D&I movement?
No, that is not the point
Just hire people who can get things done and when you do don’t discriminate them based on other factors.
Yes! Not enough Marxists in tech - too many center-left and center-right people and libertarians. According to FOX News, most young people are socialists... so a goal of 30% anarchists and Marxists seems about right.
Yes. Absolutely. But they won't.
Heck no. People should leave their politics (and religion) at home, and and concentrate on work.
people choose their political orientation. don't act like it's the same thing
How about worm-self?
Some choose their gender.