25 Feb 2021
HubSpot Response
5yThank you for your candor on this topic. It's important employees feel comfortable sharing this kind of feedback with us because our goal is to make HubSpot wholly inclusive, regardless of political affiliation or who employees vote for. So I'm grateful to you for speaking up. We don't encourage employees to discuss politics with colleagues, but we do encourage employees to bring their full selves to work. Employee-created Slack channels like #politispot are a result of that given how tense the political landscape has been in the U.S., and while we care deeply about transparency and autonomy, it's also critical we're creating safe spaces. One thing we said at a recent AMA was that we want to create a workplace where people of all political views can be their authentic selves, but not at the expense of the well-being and psych safety of others, so for example. Said differently, anti-racism work and inclusion is part of our culture that is mission critical, but there's a big difference between standing by that (as we continue to do) and expecting everyone to believe the same thing, which is not our aim or culture. Thanks for the feedback and honesty here-tough to hear, but appreciate your candor. -Katie