Freedom Economy Survey Reveals “Hideology” is Widespread Among Conservatives in today’s Cancel Culture Workplace
A newly released special edition of the Freedom Economy Index Survey (FEI) found that 63% of faith-based, conservative employees are forced to hide their ideology in the US workplace for fear of being cancelled or negatively impacted.
A sampling of volunteered comments include:
“I was told to remove an American Flag pin off my jacket.”
“I cannot wear beautiful cross necklace my husband got me.”
“I was discriminated against by colleagues once they learned I’m conservative.”
“When I worked for HCL/Google we didn't DARE say we were church goers.”
“I am a radical feminist which is a kind of leftist, but I am sympathetic to the discrimination that conservatives have experienced in the workplace.”
Additionally, 58.2% of workers say they’ve been forced to sit through DEI trainings and 30% have been made to participate in pride celebrations or other cultural events even though it violates their faith.
“This is what happens when cancel-culture invades your HR department,” said Andrew Crapuchettes, RedBalloon CEO. “Your company will not succeed if you have employees who are fearful they’ll be ‘outed’ and punished by HR or their co-workers for having traditional values.”
“America needs to revive strong workplace culture where employees are free to live their lives without fear of being canceled or persecuted for their faith or political beliefs,” continued Crapuchettes.
The special edition survey, a joint project of RedBalloon and PublicSquare, polled a file of 100,000 employees & job seekers from RedBalloon’s national job seeker profile database. The FEI has typically polled a joint file of 80,000 small business owners from PublicSquare and RedBalloon’s customer files.
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The June Freedom Economy Index Survey focusing on job seekers sampled a universe of over 100,000 job seekers from RedBalloon’s national job seeker database. The survey fielded from May 22 to May 31, with 949 respondents with a +/- 3% margin of error at the 95% confidence level.