{"id":7247,"date":"2022-10-03T07:40:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T05:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/03\/murray-lambell-of-ebay-uk-i-was-not-comfortable-to-be-out-at-work-and-that-limits-you\/"},"modified":"2022-10-03T07:40:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T05:40:16","slug":"murray-lambell-of-ebay-uk-i-was-not-comfortable-to-be-out-at-work-and-that-limits-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/03\/murray-lambell-of-ebay-uk-i-was-not-comfortable-to-be-out-at-work-and-that-limits-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Murray Lambell of eBay UK: \u2018I was not comfortable to be out at work \u2026 and that limits you\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The online retail giant\u2019s boss is on a mission to make employee inclusivity a \u2018moral obligation\u2019 and to help his company adapt to a difficult post-pandemic marketplace<\/p>\n<p>When corporate executives start discussing their efforts to influence company culture, a healthy amount of scepticism is advisable. But Murray Lambell, the UK boss of US online retail giant eBay, can draw on personal experience of the importance of how a business cares for staff. For many years he hid his sexuality from colleagues in a culture that was \u201cmore stifled and stuffy internally\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was probably my own baggage,\u201d he says. \u201cI was not comfortable to be out at work \u2026 A lot of the leadership was white, middle-aged, from a very specific demographic and academic background, which didn\u2019t all resonate with me. I didn\u2019t feel comfortable to be a complete person at work and then that limits you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/oct\/01\/murray-lambell-of-ebay-uk-i-was-not-comfortable-to-be-out-at-work-and-that-limits-you\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6f9db6d2a77fe8748fb74304dfe29b3f032ff382\/0_274_8192_4915\/master\/8192.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=517b5089ae788eac5e9dcaae2d78b69c\" title=\"Murray Lambell of eBay UK: \u2018I was not comfortable to be out at work \u2026 and that limits you\u2019\" \/>The online retail giant\u2019s boss is on a mission to make employee inclusivity a \u2018moral obligation\u2019 and to help his company adapt to a difficult post-pandemic marketplace<br \/>\nWhen corporate executives start discussing their efforts to influence company culture, a healthy amount of scepticism is advisable. But Murray Lambell, the UK boss of US online retail giant eBay, can draw on personal experience of the importance of how a business cares for staff. For many years he hid his sexuality from colleagues in a culture that was \u201cmore stifled and stuffy internally\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cIt was probably my own baggage,\u201d he says. \u201cI was not comfortable to be out at work \u2026 A lot of the leadership was white, middle-aged, from a very specific demographic and academic background, which didn\u2019t all resonate with me. I didn\u2019t feel comfortable to be a complete person at work and then that limits you.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The online retail giant\u2019s boss is on a mission to make employee inclusivity a \u2018moral obligation\u2019 and to help his company adapt to a difficult post-pandemic marketplace When corporate executives start discussing their efforts to influence company culture, a healthy amount of scepticism is advisable. But Murray Lambell, the UK boss of US online retail &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/03\/murray-lambell-of-ebay-uk-i-was-not-comfortable-to-be-out-at-work-and-that-limits-you\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Murray Lambell of eBay UK: \u2018I was not comfortable to be out at work \u2026 and that limits you\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7247"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}