Who let the dogs out?
Oh boy, are they like cats and dogs over there at Facebook?
The social media giant this week issued an edict to its employees to stop bickering about politics, racial justice or the pandemic on its company message board.
The schism at FB had become so severe that its founder Mark Zuckerberg decided to blow the whistle for everyone to cool down and tone down the rhetoric.
FB has been employing through the years a battery of moderators to remove offensive content in its platform, thus the report of workplace fights had amused a lot of people in the tech world.
“What we’ve heard from our employees is that they want the option to join debates on social and political issues rather than see them unexpectedly in their work feed,” a Facebook spokesman said in a response to AFP.
“We’re updating our employee policies and work tools to ensure our culture remains respectful and inclusive.”
FB has been employing through the years a battery of moderators to remove offensive content in its platform, thus the report of workplace fights had amused a lot of people in the tech world.
It said it wants civil, open debates that focus on work, admonishing some employees for not being professional in expressing personal opinions.
“While sharing information and ideas with colleagues helps build community, disrupting the workday to have a raging debate over politics or the latest news story does not,” read FB’s new guideline to employees.
“Our primary responsibility is to do the work we’ve each been hired to do, not to spend working time on debates about non-work topics.”