Enterprise / Corporate Compliance Training is just More of the Neoliberal Globalist Assault (Indoctrination) We Currently See Throughout Academia
The Ubiquitous Indoctrination Methods Are Meant to Subvert any Impetus towards Authentic Sovereignty and Anarchy (True Freedom)
The contemporary corporate / enterprise “compliance trainings” are perfect examples of the thinly veiled assault on employee (citizen) morale and critical thinking. The corporate deployed LMS (learning management systems) are tied-at-the-hip with the corporate human resources / “talent” management teams and related solutions – which are invariably tied-at-the-hip with the human (bio)capital measurement frameworks and systems that provide financial incentives to the organization (e.g. ESG). I’ve written about my personal experiences with one of the biggest, Workday, and how this corporate recruiting, onboarding, “compliance training,” and “talent” management solution is curiously tied-at-the-hip with - not only the DIA / Defense Intelligence Agency – but everything ESG, everything Agenda 21 / 2030, everything CGT, CRT, “Climate Change,” U.N. SDGs, DEI, CEI, NACs, CLL, JEDI, the PMC, P3s, NGOs, billionaire “philanthropy,” “The Great Reset,” etc. etc. etc. In short, everything “woke” and globalist.
I have ZERO problem with LMS solutions that are deployed to help upskill or cross-train employees – solutions leveraged to help train employees how to be better at their jobs and in their “careers.” Where I see the problem is when these companies – in my experiences in the F500 – deploy these solutions to – in effect – teach or influence HOW one thinks – especially with regard to “ethics” (moral philosophy) – with which the corporations are completely hypocritical and have NO BUSINESS in “preaching” about and trying to appear “altruistic.” More-and-more, the required curricula include all manner of “corporate ethical compliance” which all too conveniently aligns with neoliberalism / globalism propaganda. That a company’s ESG “score” and related financial incentives are dependent upon how well it “nudges” (propagandizes / indoctrinates) the employees. I’ve long held that ESG “impact investing” is simply the financial instrumentation(s) that allow-for a complete overhaul of the financial / enterprise / corporate landscape – and therefore governments and their citizenry. The not as obvious as China’s “Social Credit Score.” A financial instrument and system weaponization – no longer are the old skool, “economic hitmen” required. The final, last “targets” are the individual global citizens – no longer just their respective countries / governments.
“There is no question that organizations maximize success when their workforce is optimized. When you have the right gathering of minds and energies, then everyone with the capability and desire to contribute and excel can confidently do so. Organizations that are people and idea-diverse; fair and equitable; and open, safe, and inclusive, strongly outperform their competition.” https://www.gpstrategies.com/solutions/leadership-dei-training/dei-training-programs/
“In this collection of courses all your staff will learn about recognizing privilege, they will understand the concept of unconscious bias, and learn about the various types of discrimination and how to confront it. Business managers and leaders will learn why inclusion in the workplace is so important and how to become inclusive leaders. The collection also features courses on LGBTQ+ awareness and inclusion and gender inclusion.” https://www.talentlms.com/library/collection/diversity-and-inclusion/
Long gone are the days when employees were dutifully given a copy of the “Employee Handbook” and simply required to submit the executed signature page as part of the onboarding process. The company’s own, rarely read, “terms and conditions,” much like those of all the digital platforms and services we utilize. Gotta keep the lawyers happy... Now what is modus operandi are the ever growing (perpetual email inbox filling) “compliance trainings” that if ignored, an automatic email from the company LMS to your boss will suffice as the required “incentive” (coercion) for completion. In my latest experience with an enterprise LMS and the required, self-directed “compliance trainings,” I began with approximately 16 different “trainings,” across all different “subjects” (most not related to my job – most related to “behavioral training”), and found that another 15 or so had been added after nearly completing the first set. These “trainings” can take anywhere from 20 minutes to 2 hours apiece – and always have a deadline for completion. In my previous position, it was par for the course to have regular “compliance trainings” (e.g. “annual re-certification”) added on a monthly basis – and expect to spend a good portion of a workday catching-up / getting them out-of-the-way. It was universally understood joke that we had to take our valuable time to steep in the “corporate Kool-Aid” just to check some compliance box for the company lawyers.
These “compliance trainings,” the LMS solutions, and the content providers (vendors) are a HUGE BUSINESS. A huge business that benefits from corporate (globalist, neoliberal, government) mandates…
“The usefulness of LMS, coupled with the availability of low-cost plans like those offered by the top 20 LMS software companies of 2024, makes it one of the fastest-growing software categories. Specifically, the global LMS market size is expected to reach $25.7 billion by 2025, up from $13.4 billion in 2020, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 14.0%” https://financesonline.com/top-20-lms-software-companies/
“By the end of 2025, experts have estimated the global eLearning market value to reach $325 billion. Global industry analysts at a market research firm estimated that the global eLearning market would reach $107 billion by 2015 - and it did. The market is likely to triple during the period 2015-2025.” https://www.devlinpeck.com/content/elearning-statistics
“Whether you need to report an employee's completion of mandatory training to a government agency or certify that they've completed a safety course before working on new equipment, Absorb LMS is the LMS compliance solution for you.” https://www.absorblms.com/solutions/compliance-training/
Now, you can cite the CONVID operation and the huge surge in remote work as the main reason for this incredible increase in online corporate indoctrination / propaganda, but we’d have to (at the very least) look at some of the things that have led to the widespread adoption of “standardization and compliance trainings and methods” within the enterprise. The histories (and similarities / synergistic influences) of the “Toyota (Total) Quality Management” (TQM), Kaizen, Six Sigma, Lean, Agile, Scrum, PMO, etc. have provided company leadership with not only methodologies, but also tools (software solutions) to “manage production.” This is essentially a thinly veiled effort at standardized and centralized management the workforce, and a “palatable” way (to most businesses and capitalists) of propagandizing / indoctrinating the employees – their “captive audience.” What started as a way to ensure ever increasing product / production quality and reduced waste / risk in manufacturing (factory) environments became how nearly all corporations came to view “talent” management. The employee must be trained (indoctrinated) into a rigid, “factory worker” system, and their compliance to that system ensures total, efficient, leadership surveillance and mechanisms of control. Poor product “quality” and increased “waste” and “risk” soon became secondary considerations – if not (ironically) actual results of the very heavy-handed, bureaucratic systems put in place to “improve” such things. The drive to influence and indoctrinate (in essence, subjugate) the employees became the real priority. And the corporate human resources teams became the proverbial vanguard. What have become the main concerns are the employee behavioral aspects of “quality” and “waste” and “risk” – not actual products. Human (bio)capital is the “currency” and focus. “Nudging” (propaganda / indoctrination) is the strategy. And ESG is the system by which such stuff is financialized, measured, tracked, etc. Large parts of corporate compliance training are clever (incremental) mechanisms of this ubiquitous, pernicious, and subversive system. One need only look at “Ivy League” academia to see how this (neoliberal globalist) system is being cleverly and universally propagated.
I’ve noted the emergence of the new type of corporate “compliance” platform in those of the euphemistic, “consent management platforms” marketed (heavily) under the aegis (smoke screen) of “consumer data privacy” and related regulations. Aspects that are not as heavily marketed are those of the internal (employee) compliance with things like ESG and related emerging regulations. Again, top-down, centralized “command and control” (compliance) is being systematically implemented by way of these systems / platforms – and more-and-more they are being managed (and fed) by various permutations of AI.
While I’ve taken certain liberties with my hypotheses, the pattern recognition is extremely compelling:
How very interesting that Workday has an…
“ongoing class-action lawsuit that alleges Workday uses AI to discriminate against candidates based on race, age, and disability. ("We believe this lawsuit is without merit and deny the allegations," said a Workday spokesperson. "Workday does not have oversight or control of our customers' job application processes."
https://www.businessinsider.com/everyone-hates-workday-human-resources-customer-service-software-fortune-500-2024-5
AND has…
“recently announced that the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has opted to utilize Workday Government Cloud to expedite human resource modernization initiatives.” https://finance.yahoo.com/news/workday-wday-solution-modernize-hr-153700776.html
And how very interesting that enterprise “consent management platforms” can be leveraged to ensure ESG compliance: https://www.onetrust.com/products/esg-program-reporting-and-disclosures/
Hmmmmmm….
Finally, the shift of the MIC (Military Industrial Complex) away from the Washington D.C Beltway to that of Silicon Valley is readily apparent. Software (AI) is now the “weaponology” of choice.
“Our research reveals that the top five contracts to major tech firms between 2019 and 2022 had contract ceilings totaling at least $53 billion combined.” https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/
And while the obvious (terrifying) results of this tectonic shift are the developments we’re seeing in autonomous (AI) drone (swarm) warfare and surveillance / targeting (and “pre crime”) systems (Ukraine and Gaza / Rafah are the latest “testing theaters of operation”), what cannot be dismissed are the not-so-obvious developments in what we all know as “asymmetrical, total warfare” in these ubiquitous, pernicious, and pervasive propaganda / indoctrination systems being rolled-out everywhere – even in that “innocent” corporation you’re currently working-for.
Keep yer wits about you. This War is far from over.
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Hello, Barry! I followed your link from Fakebook to here. Very interesting article. As I read through the eight signs of Corporate Sociopathy, I found myself repulsed and feeling guilty at different moments as I saw myself in some of them from when I was involved in the corporate world years ago.
It’s not a happy idea to know I was very much heading down that path of being a type of enforcer for the globalists, even though it has been years and my mind broke through the cognitive dissonance and apathy. Your words bit my humanity and forced me to see how easy it is for even someone like myself to lose sight of who I am and what I stand for. I knew what government was. I knew what that bastion of capitalist globalism created. I feel the need for a shower.
I need to meditate and clear my mind.
I like your writing style here. It spoke to me without seeming like someone was trying to reach above my head and tell me I was lesser. I feel a little unsettled by it, but that also means it’ll stick with me. It makes me wish I were a great strategist. Capable of seeing all the chess moves on this huge board of a world, and knowing which to make to create the desired outcome. Thank you, I guess.
Maybe the meditation will help.
I’ll be back.
This article / interview / book launch bears mentioning again: https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/dangers-ai-hiring-firing-employees-focus-book/story?id=108890705