Policies
Company policies exist to provide guardrails for the company’s operations. They set boundaries and clarify what’s OK and what’s not OK. This is meant to protect the company from things like data loss, fines, lawsuits, bad business decisions, wasting money, cultural toxicity, and so forth.
Since a company exists only through the people working there, the policies impact what people can and can’t do. Some of these restrictions might not make sense from an individual perspective, but they most likely do in the company context. Some restrictions might make things complicated, be uncomfortable or annoying.
However, finding oneself in disagreement with a company policy, taking it personally is not an option. It’s not about “you”, after all. Asking the right questions to understand what it’s about will be better. There usually is a very good reason.
In case there isn’t - or isn’t any more -, the question is a good way of unearthing that, and having the policy revised. Asking to understand is, in such cases, still much better than plain complaining and protesting.
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