Comment by ezrast

> The people who were working there were forced discuss or be "activists" by other coworkers.

Source? I have no idea what this is referring to.

Effective neutrality due to lack of will or resources is one thing. But a declaration of neutrality is a message to other actors that you will not intervene in their affairs. It is a rejection of the cultural norm that extremism (outside the company) should be tempered. Sounds pretty political to me, but maybe you and I are working with different definitions of politics.