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Netflix this week came under fire for the sacking of three employees for 'griping' about bosses on a work chat they believed to be private.
After sparking a debate on LinkedIn, Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos spurred further debate by defending the move.
But what is the right course of action when staff are 'griping' about their leaders? This is what we seek to answer in today's top story.
In times of stress and anxiety – especially when hard decisions are made at executive level – it’s not unusual that staff may feel the need to share their gripes together. In the office, these fleeting conversations in which displeasure at decisions made about their paygrade may take place around the water cooler, or over a cup of coffee in the break room. However, since the coronavirus pandemic moved most comms to digital tools such as Slack and Teams, a paper trail now exists that presents a new challenge for both leaders and workers.
