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Anyone else seeing fewer pronouns in the workplace?

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Pedestrian0 · 22/04/2024 09:48

I work in a large Stonewalled organisation. A couple of years ago everyone was fully 'she/her/hers' on Teams and in emails but I've noticed a real drop off recently and I'm so pleased. I think/hope people are getting a bit tired of the silly business. Now the pronoun-staters are very definitely in a minority.

I can also confidently say that pronouns on Teams or email have NEVER enhanced any interaction I've had at the company over the past five years. I've seen one they/them and frankly everyone referred to the obvious male as 'he' if we have reason to refer to him when he isn't around. It's not malicious, it's just the obvious pronoun to use for an obvious male. Everyone else just has sex-based pronouns. But - if you can't tell by the beard and obviously male features you can tell by the name 'John'. No need for the he/hims. It's really just virtue signalling and makes me eyeroll a lot.

I like that it's dropping away because the fewer people who do it, the more it'll drop out of fashion. But is it just my work or is anyone else seeing this?

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Tinysoxxx · 22/04/2024 10:00

Yes. Big networking organisation. Every so often when people change their information on social media, the pronouns get dropped. The ones that are left are the ones that haven’t updated recently or are very into the ideology.

Pedestrian0 · 22/04/2024 09:52

Oh - should add that one time a she/hers on email did give me extra information about the gender of the person as her name was unfamiliar to me. But it didn't change my response in any way as in my business interactions the sex of my colleagues isn't relevant. I obviously had no need to use her pronouns as I was talking directly to her.

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