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I'm trying and failing to think of any important part of "company culture" that only works for people in the same room. Culture is made of shared values (codifi
by wrs 5y ago
I'm trying and failing to think of any important part of "company culture" that only works for people in the same room. Culture is made of shared values (codified in actions, not PowerPoints), communication norms, peer reactions, shared history, inside jokes...all of that stuff can work remotely. If your company has more than one office it already has to work remotely.
- walshemj 5y agoI think that is not really true remember work is not just "me me me" its a collective endeavor.
- cosmotic 5y agoIn this instance, corporate culture is a stand in for 'what the boss wants the boss gets'. I can't think of a company culture that is healthy and also different from what it appears everyone wants: flexibility in their work location and schedule. Who are these worker-bees that prefer to waste 2 hours of their day in stressful transit to get to a stressful environment that have no negative health consequences from the stress?
- GavinMcG 5y agoIf your company has more than one office, they each have their own culture, which hews more or less closely to the cultural commonalities between offices. Shared values, communication norms, peer reactions, shared history, and inside jokes can exist when people aren't in the same room, but that culture tends to be a lot thinner. It would be more fruitful to discuss whether that's a good or bad thing—the bare existence of culture isn't what anyone is talking about here.
- wrs 5y agoSure, there is office culture, but I think “company culture” has to be what’s in common between the offices, by definition, no?
- GavinMcG 5y agoI don't think the managers the article describes are making the distinction you're making. They're concerned about the loss/thinness of culture, not only company-wide but also at the individual office level. It's also reasonable to think that thin office cultures provide a poor foundation for a thick company culture.
- bonniemuffin 5y agoI miss doing jigsaw puzzles with my coworkers. Online games don't feel the same. Culture things are mostly tiny and each seem like no big deal, but collectively, I do think it's really hard to replicate remotely.