Like everything in work you can't do it if it interferes with your professional relationships. If it's necessary for doing your job that's a different story but that's rarely actually the case.
Not just terrifying, it could also lead to significant problems.
Depending on the job, but always to some degree, you'll have to do things that your coworkers won't like, but is actually good for the company, probably also good for your coworkers in the long run.
This system strongly discourages doing these things. And you generally can't just not do these things. They have to get done at some point.
My organization accounts for this by putting the onious on you to have a work safe environment in your background. Lack of compliance in this can lead to termination.
What you do at your workplace is by definition not private and shouldn't be. When you're on the company clock using the companies resources, the company should know what you're doing, and you should be ok with that. And if any of those things bother you, sorry, you're the problem.
The author isn't saying that it's a bad thing, or something that good employees shouldn't be doing. Rather that it's a thing that happens, and is important to your employees, so if you don't address it or aren't attune to it then problems ensue.
My employer is hyper-strict about stuff that is directly competitive with their offerings, but has tightly "ringfenced" those offerings and allows us to do what we like outside them.
While I agree in principle, the fact remains that certain things you publicly do in your free time will change the way people view you and their respect for you as a professional. In the end, it affects your ability to do your job when you lose respect of your colleagues and clients.
In a perfect world, this wouldn’t be a problem, but we’re far from that.
While I generally agree with the sentiment, if I were a manager that seems like something I wouldn't be able to allow because t would be too disruptive for no company benefit.
That's assuming it's done during work hours. If done outside it may still be an issue if it starts to effect the working relationship.
That's fine it works for you but it just shifts the burden off yourself by putting it on your coworkers. Unless it's specifically discussed and agreed upon for your role, that's rather unfair to the rest of the team.
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