How to help bridge social and political divides among employees

Among the myriad of challenges that internal communicators currently face, the inability to talk with employees about divisive political and social issues is one of the toughest. As the past two years have brought heated, politicized responses to the global pandemic, polarizing conversations around racial inequity and more, these discussions are also happening at work — whether communicators want them to or not.

In a new report from Business for America and Civic Health Project, 69% of companies surveyed said that America’s growing social and political divides are manifesting at work to create negative effects on their employees and company culture.