Dan Yager, general counsel at the HR Policy Association in Washington, D.

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Is it an HR policy, program, benefit or technology?

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Michael Peterson, a vice president at the HR Policy Association, a trade group for human-resources executives, argues that employees' negative online postings could damage a company's reputation and that the agency needs to offer clearer guidance.

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"We are very concerned that the department is moving forward with what is clearly a fundamental change in longstanding policies regarding affirmative action, " said Jeffrey McGuiness, president of the HR Policy Association, a trade group for human-resource executives at more than 300 of the largest private-sector U.S. companies.

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According to the HR email, this is a new policy across the board for all employees.

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The "partnership" that Gates wants to alter operates within a dense, tight web of rules, laws, contracts, bureaucratic structures, habits, licensure requirements, training regimens, HR systems and a hundred other factors best described as policy and structure.

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