Some of us have done it that way since Usenet in the early 1980s w/out ever having worked in corporations, attended HR meetings, and well before woke entered the recent zeitgeist lexicon.
Using they is indeed a grammatical usage stretching back centuries in the english language.
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> Also yes, it is 100% corporate woke-ism...
In your experience, sure.
Some of us have done it that way since Usenet in the early 1980s w/out ever having worked in corporations, attended HR meetings, and well before woke entered the recent zeitgeist lexicon.
Using they is indeed a grammatical usage stretching back centuries in the english language.
Oxford Eng. Dict. cites it used in that manner going back to circa 1200. (well, as ' https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%BEe%C8%9D%C8%9D ' in Middle English)