Once upon a time, senior leaders and their companies could get away with not taking a stance on social and policy issues, but in today’s hyper-political environment, there is no such thing as neutral ground anymore. Even silence is a position.
The Wayfair walkout, in which hundreds of employees and customers protested the online retailer’s sale of $200,000 in furniture to a government contractor managing a migrant detention camp at the U.S. Southern border, represents just the latest high-profile example of how social and policy issues continue to spill into the corporate ethics and compliance realm.
