The Fallacy of the Politics-Free Office

Companies like Coinbase say employees should leave politics at home. Here’s why that’s impossible.

Laszlo Bock
Marker
Published in
4 min readOct 6, 2020

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Photo: Seth Herald/Getty Images

Co-authored with Liz Fosslien

“The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits,” declared economist Milton Freidman in a 1970 essay for the New York Times. Decades later, look where…

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Laszlo Bock
Marker
Writer for

CEO & Co-founder of Humu | Co-founder of Gretel.ai | author of bestseller “Work Rules!” | former SVP of People Operations at Google