Workplace Experts Talk Navigating Politics in the Office: Newsweek Podcast [Video]

The latest episode of Newsweek‘s Horizons podcast explores the challenge of rising political disagreement in the workplace.

Political conflict and polarization are on the rise in the United States. Smartphones are pushing notifications to us constantly; digital news outlets are incentivized to sensationalize global events; the fragmentation of media on the internet means that people can stay informed, entertained and social in their echo chambers; and people increasingly believe that those who are politically opposed to them are bad people.

On a panel discussion that took place on December 10 at Newsweek’s headquarters in New York City, experts spanning a wide range of fields offered advice to executives dealing with political strife in the workplace.

“It matters for America, it matters for our relationships,” Dr. Kurt Gray, social psychologist and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said on the panel. “Folks have always been divided, there’s always been disagreements. It’s worse now.”

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