> Sending out company newsletters seems like a nice way to let everyone know what the company is up to. Not sure how you go from that to reminding lowly enginee

> Sending out company newsletters seems like a nice way to let everyone know what the company is up to. Not sure how you go from that to reminding lowly engineers of their "insignificance". Speaking as someone working in a small company that was acquired by a much larger corporation that shows all the signs being discussed here, it's not just newsletters. Those are useful. It's being sent dozens of spammy emails a week about initiatives that are clearly some VP's ego project and have no relevance you other than clogging your inbox and taking away some of your time and attention. One recent example I got was three days of emails telling me to 'get ready' for an internal initiative but mentioning nothing else except a name. No links to click, no calls to action, no useful information at all. Only for the final email to reveal it was about a non-strategic initiative that applied to some other site only, despite all the emails being sent to the global company. All attempts at getting that sort of thing off the all-hands mailing list have been rejected. A place that thinks that's okay does not respect the time or attention of its employees, and it does tend to make you feel reminded of your insignificance.