Andy Byron: US tech CEO resigns after Coldplay concert embrace goes viral
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The company said its leader had not met the expected standard of conduct and accountability.

A US tech company says its chief executive has quit after he was apparently caught on a big screen at a Coldplay concert embracing a female co-worker, in a clip that went viral.

The clip showed a man and a woman hugging on a jumbo screen at the arena in Foxborough, Massachusetts, before they abruptly ducked and hid from the camera.

The pair were identified in US media as Mr Byron, a married chief executive of Astronomer, and Kristin Cabot, the firm’s chief people officer.

  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 months ago

    I am from the UK and this wouldn’t fly here either.

    You can’t be sleeping with your employees dude that’s a clear power imbalance dynamic and you would be fired here too for having a relationship with a subordinate.

    It’s not like companies give a shit who you sleeping with but they have rules in place to prevent abuses of power and also to protect their own image.

    Seems pretty naive that you can only see this from a very limited angle.

    • FelixCress@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      You can be sleeping with your employees dude that’s a clear power imbalance dynamic and you would be fired here too for having a relationship with a subordinate.

      Educate yourself.

      https://www.employmentlawreview.co.uk/personal-relationships-at-work-what-does-uk-law-say/

      You can be forced to disclose relationships and sacked if you fail to do so. You cannot be sacked for having a relationship.

      Completely banning personal relationships at work would likely breach an employee’s right to a private life. However, that doesn’t mean employers can’t put measures in place to mitigate risks to the business caused by such relationships. Policies employers may want to consider implementing include:

      Ensuring that employees disclose any workplace relationships they have so that appropriate steps can be taken to minimise risks

      Restricting employees who deal with recruitment from the process if it involves someone they have a personal relationship with

      Potentially changing an employee’s manager if they’re in a relationship with their current one, providing this doesn’t discriminate against them

        • FelixCress@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Read again. You cannot be sacked for having a relationship and companies are not allowed to forbid that. Admit you were wrong and move on.

          • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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            3 months ago

            Your article clearly says they can have policies about it. The penalty for not following policies is often termination. So the article doesn’t say what you are claiming it does.

                • FelixCress@lemmy.world
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                  3 months ago

                  Now try to understand what you are reading. Start with

                  Completely banning personal relationships at work would likely breach an employee’s right to a private life