How bosses at work can bring employees together amid intense reactions to the tragic

shooting this weekend in Pennsylvania.

I'm David Brancaccio. It's now the work week after what authorities are investigating as an attempted

assassination of a leading candidate for president.

As people process the news and images from Butler, Pennsylvania from Saturday, some of that processing will occur at work today,

which can be, like the rest of America, a polarized place.

Shoreham, the Society for Human Resource Management, has been doing some thinking about ways

managers might guide these conversations. Johnny C. Taylor Jr. is

president CEO of the Society. Thank you for helping us with this today.

So good to be with you this morning. Society. Thank you for helping us with us today.

So good to be with you this morning.

Society, your organization, over the weekend released some guiding principles for

workplaces in these times. When you're thinking of these guiding principles what do you lead with civility?

Yes in fact we saw this coming as early as 2019 that the workplace was becoming very very hot.

So civility, but what are some of the other guiding principles then?

Our research found that since the presidential debate, for example, 78% of surveyed US workers

reported experiencing or witnessing poor treatment

because of their political opinions

in their everyday lives.

In the workplace, that number dropped,

but it was still 64% of residents

said they're experiencing or witnessing mistreatment

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