If you go to the web page of almost any company, be it big or small, you'll most often find there some kind of "code of conduct" or extremely similar page that will placate to modern far-leftism to one degree or another.
But the thing is: Surprisingly few companies actually want to engage in this kind of politics and would just want to remain completely neutral, just doing what they are best at, and leave politics aside. Yet, company after company after company have added all kinds of "code of conduct" and similar pages to their websites.
But why? Have they been invaded by far-leftist activists who have pressured the higher-ups into this? Sometimes yes, but not even nearly always.
So why is it so common? Why do so many companies feel the need to virtue-signal in this manner, trying to placate to modern far-leftism?
It's surprisingly little known, and for some reason not talked about very much, but these companies are being effectively forced to add such "codes of conduct" and similar statements to their websites.
Forced by who, exactly? By other companies!
You see, companies are extremely rarely 100% independent, not relying on any other companies. Trying to do so is pretty much impossible. Companies almost always have some kind of business relationships with other companies in one way or another. They may purchase or license products and sometimes even expertise and consultation services from other companies, or they may provide products, expertise and consultation services to other companies, they may commission work or products from other companies, or offer such things to other companies, and so on and so forth.
So what's happening is that when company A wants to start a business relationship of some kind with company B, such as commissioning something or offering something to that second company, or in other ways having a sort of partnership or client-provider relationship with that second company, if that company B has been invaded by far-leftism, they will start scrutinizing company A.
"Hey, we have browsed all of your online material, and we aren't finding an official Code of Conduct document. Can you please provide us with your official Code of Conduct so that we can be sure that our employees are safe working for you?"
Indeed, having an official "Code of Conduct" and other similar documents have been pretty much a requirement in company partnerships for at least a decade now. When a "woke" and big company is commissioning services from other companies, and there are multiple competing offers, the amount of leftist virtue signaling among the competitors may literally become a crucial deciding factor. Companies are literally making business relationship decisions based on how much their potential business partners virtue-signal with "Codes of Conduct" and other similar documents.
And, unfortunately, this requirement is virulent. In the above case, if company A offers a service to company B, and company B is requiring the virtue-signaling from company A, and while providing that service company A needs something from a third company C, then company A might make the "Code of Conduct requirement" from that company C as well, so as to not compromise their business relationship with company B. So the requirements just spread like this, from one company to another in a huge chain.
Most companies don't want to deal with this, don't want to be constantly asked "hey, where's your code of conduct document?", so they just resign to it and add some bullshit document to their websites just to placate to other companies. They aren't interested in fighting it out of principle.
And this is not without its consequences. Once companies can be, essentially, coerced into doing this, it becomes easier to coerce them into adopting even further far-leftist policies.
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