Hello everyone,

My name is Yagmur, and I’m an intern at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo, Norway, working with professor Jonas R. Kunst. Professor Kunst leads a study on whether political disagreement is increasingly described as a source of conflict at work. The study looks at publicly archived Reddit discussions from 2005 to 2026, and r/careerguidance is one of the forums included. We’re posting here [with the moderators’ permission] so that people whose posts may be part of the data know about it.

How the study works

We don’t post, comment, or contact anyone. The material comes from the public Arctic Shift archive, not from Reddit itself.

Usernames are replaced by random identifiers, and any names mentioned in posts are removed before analysis.

No post is ever quoted. The results are only overall rates per forum and month.

The project has been assessed by Norway’s data protection service for research (Sikt, ref.…