It's a question of trust and societal culture, not company culture. On Halloween, can you leave a bowl of candy outside your door with a sign that says "Happy

It's a question of trust and societal culture, not company culture. On Halloween, can you leave a bowl of candy outside your door with a sign that says "Happy halloween! Please take one!" and trust that kids will just take only one? In Germany you can. In Canada you can. In the USA, it seems you cannot. This permeates through to high paid software engineers too. If you have a cabinet full of office supplies, will some people start stealing for home? Turns out, even high paid software engineers at some companies will. BUT if you have a culture of high trust, and high inclusivity (into the in group), then they won't. Google had that. A lot of companies had that. A shared sense of mission. (Buoyed by constantly rising stock price) Once you grow past a certain size, you lose it.