Years ago, during a particularly tedious annual ethics “refresher” my then-employer required, it occurred to me the idea of “business ethics” was absurd.
Either something is ethical or it isn’t; whether it happens in the context of business is irrelevant. I was willfully parsing it wrong — I knew it was supposed to be “ethics” as a discipline within “business,” not “business” modifying the scope of “ethics” — but even so, the phrase struck me as disheartening for the distinction it seemed to imply was meaningful.
via Kate O’Neill: Why ‘work-life balance’ doesn’t work.
