Politics in the US Workplace
A research initiative and open data project to understand the role of politics in the workplace—with partisan estimates for organizations, industries, occupations, and metros.
24.5M+
Employees
Matched to voter registration records.
534K+
Employers
Organizational partisanship for private, public, and non-profit employers.
1,000+
Industries
NAICS coverage down to six-digit industry detail.
2012–2024
Years Covered
Annual estimates across the full time series.
Workplace partisanship by sector
Ridgelines show employer-level two-party Republican shares, grouped by NAICS sector.
Company spotlight
From the VRscores research library
Explore how the team and collaborators are using VRscores in current working papers.
VRscores: A Voter Registration-Based Approach for Measuring Workforce Politics
Max Kagan, Justin Frake, Reuben Hurst
Working paperThis paper introduces VRscores, a workplace-level measure of employee partisanship constructed by linking U.S. voter registrations to electronically available profiles of workers covering 2012 to 2024. The…
Political Segregation in the US Workplace
Justin Frake, Reuben Hurst, Max Kagan
Working paperUsing a novel dataset created by matching employment histories with voter registration data for 45.3 million workers, we provide the first large-scale estimate of workplace political segregation in the United States. We…
Organizational Civic Culture: Workplaces as Engines of Democratic Participation
Reuben Hurst, Max Kagan, Matthew Lee, Justin Frake
Working paperOrganizational cultures shape not only workplace outcomes but also civic life. While prior work has largely conceptualized civic culture within geographic units (e.g., country, state, or city), we introduce and evaluate…