there has been an observation that HR leaders are starting to realise that silence from the majority of their employees doesn't indicate support or assent. Also making quite a powerful point about HR becoming aware that they might be seen to be compelling belief.
I think this is something that really hasn't been adequately dealt with.
I think I've told the story here of a friend who left a company he'd been with for many years because of their increasing insistence on employees participating in political initiatives in the company. He is, and always was as long as he worked there, a very observant Catholic. Which really didn't have anything to do with his job which involved dealing with technical issues in industry.
Over the years though there were more and more of all the political posturing that we see employers involved in now, including things like wanting the employees to march with a float or truck or something in the Pride parade, wearing political lanyards, and all that kind of thing. For whatever reason most of it seemed to be around LGBTQ+ stuff, and some with BLM for a few years.
My friend was never inclined to talk about religion at work, but he increasingly found it difficult to not participate in all the stuff they wanted, and the people would ask questions about why he never went in the parade and so on. He didn't feel he could really give an answer, and he eventually left for another, smaller company.
I'm not sure how that doesn't count as pressure around religious beliefs, and for that matter political beliefs. Aren't we supposed to be entitled to those things, whatever an employer thinks? There is a reason we tend to avoid businesses, at least large ones with a lot of different employees, asking to participate in religious types of rituals, and many people even avoid talking much about their religious beliefs and life - it's because it's not appropriate to put that stuff on other workers. Well, secular belief systems aren't that differernt, not everyone thinks the same things about identity, or race, or sexual behaviour, or child-rearing.
We've lost some important boundaries in the workplace IMO.