Expensify

Oregon
Accounting Payroll & HR Services

Corprate Bias Ratings

Risk Level:

Rating - Caution
Medium Risk

Expensify's CEO regularly promotes his liberal political views, including sending an email to the company's team and its 10 million customers, encouraging them all to vote for Joe Biden in the 2020 election. The company does not have political affiliation (viewpoint) protections for employees. Despite the CEO's political activism, there are no reports of Expensify firing employees due to religious or political beliefs, and the company does not discriminate against faith-based charities. It donates to equity-focused charities for each dollar that it pays to white male employees but does not corporately fund ideological organizations. For these reasons, Expensify receives a "Medium Risk" rating.

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Corporate Weaponization
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Has denied service to customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

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Expensify has not publicly terminated business relationships due to religious or political beliefs.

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Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

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Expensify limits its giving to organizations supporting a sustainable environment, housing, food security, prison reform, and youth advocacy. It does not discriminate against faith-based charities in its giving (1).

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Employment policies fail to protect against discrimination based on political affiliation/views and/or religion.

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Expensify does not protect employees from viewpoint discrimination (1).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy
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Uses corporate reputation to support ideological causes and/or organizations hostile to freedom of expression.

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Expensify CEO David Barrett sent a letter to all Expensify customers attacking Donald Trump and urging them to all vote for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election (1).

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Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

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Expensify has not donated to ideological groups hostile to freedom of expression, though it has created giving campaigns for climate change and inequality-focused organizations (1). Expensify does donate $0.25 for every $1 the company pays to its white male employees to equity-focused charitable organizations (2).

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Uses corporate political contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

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Expensify does not have a PAC and does not make corporate political contributions (1). However, CEO David Barrett issued a statement attacking companies that did not suspend political giving to Republican election objectors (2).

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March 23, 2023

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