"We are experiencing a major shift in work norms," said Catherine Bracy, founder and chief executive of TechEquity Collaborative, an organisation focused on mobilising the tech sector to address economic inequity."Executives and upper management often come from a tradition that expects workers to check their personal lives and opinions at the door. Rank-and-file workers, especially millennials and Gen Z-ers, aren't willing to make those kinds of compromises.
At Netflix, comedian Dave Chappelle's latest stand-up special — a platform exclusive in which Chappelle made remarks many have condemned as transphobic — sparked the streaming giant's first major public protest by employees. Those norms might have held when the companies employed a few thousand workers, said Adam Fisher, author of."But now that these are some of the biggest companies that have ever existed on the planet — at least by value, and probably by size; other measures too — it's just harder to keep stuff secret."
One can lead to the other, said Arunima Krishna, an assistant professor of public relations at Boston University whose work has explored employee activism.
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