Hundreds of protestors including Google workers are gathered in front of Google’s San Francisco offices and shut down traffic at One Market Street block on Thursday evening, demanding an end to its work with the Israeli government, and to protest Israeli attacks on Gaza, in San Francisco, California, United States on December 14, 2023.
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Office politics have always been a point of frustration for workers, but now it’s politics in the office that’s getting under the skin of many American workers.
In an era during which more workers have felt emboldened to challenge bosses over politics — with the recent Google worker protests and arrests a prime example — just under half of American workers polled by CNBC and SurveyMonkey say they would support a ban on political conversations at work.
Given the choice to ban a single topic from being discussed at work, 47% of workers overall choose politics, four times higher than pop …
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