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by tronbabylove 2118 days ago
I suspect a mandate to use Org could be counter-productive.

One of Org's unique advantages is the pliability it has by virtue of running in Emacs. I doubt whether someone who was forced to use it would have the intrinsic motivation to climb the notoriously steep learning curves for both Elisp and Emacs. Subtract Elisp (and with it, the ability to do any debugging or customization) and you're left with stock Org mode running in an inferior text-editor.

Maybe stock Org is still enough of an improvement over Markdown that it's worth the overhead of learning Emacs, but I'd have a hard time making that pitch to my coworkers.