Georgia Aspinall makes a case for maintaining the very 'hun' practice, but only in certain contexts...
It’s one of the last remaining legacies of Hun culture, an innocuous ‘xx’ at the end of a work email meant only to signify joy, comradery or perhaps soften the blow of an otherwise. And now, it’s under fire, or rather, we’re all talking about how appropriate it is after a misconstrued ‘XX’ in an email led to a major employment tribunal.
There were many other claims that have since been thrown out, with the judge-led panel ruling that Gasparova had a ‘skewed perception of everyday events’ and misinterpreted ‘innocuous’ interactions. One, for example, involved Gasparova interpreting Goulandris using ‘AJG’ in file names as ‘A Jumbo Genital’, when in fact those letters are Goulandris’ initials.
It's certainly common practice in specific industries, perhaps depending on the age, gender, and spirit of individual teams. ‘My mostly female team often use kisses in emails to each other, even on Teams when we send messages they’re often accompanied by a “x”,’ says PR account executive Becky, 29 from London. ‘It’s usually in circumstances where the message could be perceived as blunt or you’re sending an asset without any other information.
That being said, context is surely key. Would I send a kiss on an email to a straight male colleague? No, nor would I expect them to send me one – so maybe this is a privilege reserved for female-dominated workplaces. And surely that’s okay, because one of the most heartening parts of being a woman is that we can forge easy, familiar relationships with each other that don’t blur lines of sexual harassment.
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