It will just anger them further.
“It will just anger them further.”
A very wise manager once said about something dumb the company had mandated, “Never give an order that you know will be disobeyed. It diminishes your authority and leads to everything you say to being questioned.”
I know how the employees at General Dynamics reacted to the mandatory “diversity” training. It made us angry and left the impression that the management were idiots. I didn’t try to figure out at the time what unintended negative consequences it had, but the morale went from moderately low to plumb new depths. Everyone I knew hated coming to work and couldn’t wait to leave.
We have a volunteer military. We can’t afford low morale.