Nepotism (and Nice Shoes)

Nepotism in the workplace is widely seen as unfair and harmful to businesses.

Allowing personal relationships to influence decisions can damage company performance and culture, leading to unqualified employees and undermining merit-based evaluations.

This practice often lowers productivity and increases employee turnover by limiting opportunities for talented workers, reducing morale, making staff unwilling to collaborate with one another and expand the organization’s institutional knowledge, and damaging trust between staff and leadership.

It also creates a closed system that prevents new voices from rising, perpetuating societal inequalities. *