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If 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. Shar
by GavinMcG 5y ago
If 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.