A US tech company says its chief executive has quit after he was apparently caught on a big screen at a Coldplay concert embracing a female co-worker, in a clip that went viral.
The clip showed a man and a woman hugging on a jumbo screen at the arena in Foxborough, Massachusetts, before they abruptly ducked and hid from the camera.
The pair were identified in US media as Mr Byron, a married chief executive of Astronomer, and Kristin Cabot, the firm’s chief people officer.
Once again, America shows how “free” they actually are.
And to show that the protection is not theoretical in Europe: Walmart implemented that policy when they tried getting into the German market twenty years ago. They were so insistent that it took a judge to tell them to stop it since it was against the law(It’s sraight up against the first and second article of the German constitution, which protects personal freedom).
They were free to disclose it. It is this way because people have used interoffice relationships to better their positions and create favor, which leads to an imbalanced an unfair workplace. Having a secret romance in the office has the potential for failure at best.
Got a source? Sounds like an interesting story. I can’t read german though…
If you do a “germany walmart before:2023” search, you’ll find a bunch of English articles about the whole ordeal. It was in Forbes, NYT, etc. almsot twenty years ago because of how badly they failed on multiple levels.
Seems like they were trying to ban all relationships between any employes. That wouldn’t fly in the US either.
Thank you, try to explain it to morons who downvoted my comment.
So what happens when a CEO uses his position of power to force somebody into a relationship how does she prove that it was not consensual? These rules are in place to make sure the underlings are protected.
If she gets promoted because she had sex with the boss, you’re telling me that won’t create a hostile work environment for the rest of the people that work there? If they are passed over for a promotion?
If she gets promotion, even if it was a earned promotion, you’re telling me the rest of the office won’t question it if she gets that promotion because of a belief that she got it because she slept with the boss?
There’s a lot that the US gets wrong. This is one item we got right. Yes, they are free to sleep with whoever they want, but they have to disclose it to the company. And there cannot be a boss underling type relationship if they are sleeping with each other.
But this has been explained to you by other people and you just are basically ignoring what others are saying.