One HR hotline has already received 60,000 calls this year on how to handle politics in the workplace.
Worker turnover because of “toxic” office cultures has already cost companies $223 billion in the past five years, up 24% from 2008 to 2012, according to findings released Wednesday from the Society for Human Resource Management .
‘The division we already have in the workplace now has been multiplied.’ —Society for Human Resource Management President and CEO Johnny Taylor Jr. This week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched an official impeachment inquiry into the president. “We have to manage that [political division] at work, and in the past, HR would never do that. We’d just say ‘don’t talk about that at work.’ They’re talking about it. Who isn’t talking about it? We’ve got to figure that out,” Taylor told MarketWatch. He says managers should bring workers together and let them discuss the issues, but with clear rules about being respectful and civil.
The SHRM hotline already received 60,000 queries this year on how to handle politics in the workplace, said Alexander Alonso, the professional association’s chief knowledge officer. That’s 10% of the 600,000 hot line calls it receives in a year. In 2016, it received 30,000 calls about handling the hot button topic, he said.
“It’s like nothing we’ve seen,” Taylor said of the sharp uptick in calls over politics. “The level of toxicity in the environment is at an all-time high,” he added.
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