I worked for a couple of places that did both, very well, I thought. Many years ago, at Micron, at Boise, Idaho, they made the general environment rather decen

I worked for a couple of places that did both, very well, I thought. Many years ago, at Micron, at Boise, Idaho, they made the general environment rather decent (jeans-and-running-shoes-allowed dress code), hot chocolate, and more importantly most of or all of those I worked with seemed honest and reasonable. HR also actively maintained salaries at industry-competetive levels, which made a difference. I was really impressed with the general caliber of my co-workers. Then I worked for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (on the free family history/genealogy site https://familysearch.org https://familysearch.org) for 8-10 years, and my coworkers would have been indimidating (very smart and hard-working--there were some very long hours going on from the managing director and down--he was very technical--during a big launch and scale-up period), if they weren't also generally kind and reasonable. In the lobby of our building (we were then on the 4th floor of a very public-receiving area near the headquarters, though the developers have since moved to more office-oriented areas or remote), in the gorgeous lobby there was often a (volunteer/retired/rotating) pianist playing what might be described as soft parlor music or dinner music, or there would be live local choir performances etc at holidays. A similar person (retired employee, now volunteer pianist) played every day during lunch in the cafeteria: come back to sorrento, some light classical, etc--it sounded so classy. I complimented him once and he just smiled and said "thanks!" and kept playing. I'd still be there if not for my health changes. But at separation they treated me kindly also, tried to make it as smooth as they reasonably could. Once my dentist's office said of all the insurance companies they interacted with, DMBA (Church-run for various owned nonprofit sub-orgs as well as tax-paying businesses) was always the easiest one to work with (my experience also). Though the salaries were enough to hire people, and stayed reasonable, they did say they expected that we would make more if/when we left, so nobody got rich but it was a great experience overall, for me. A coworker said his external recruiter contacts considered it one of the top two best organizations in the area to hire from; I forget who the other one was. Again, that was at least several years ago. So there are some orgs that try, anyway.