Improving Office Culture
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- sine0
^ this
why does office culture need uplifting? that's what you need to look at. anything else will just be temporary.
it doesn't have to be their salaries or working hours that's the problem.
also, it's the end of the year! fuck this shit already!
- utopian0
^ this
- mg330
I watched a company I worked at try to invent a culture out of the blue when they became a new company, having left a large parent company. They seemed to make it about the method of getting work done far more than the environment the work was being done in. We were trying to create this culture around working hard to grow and strengthen our reputation as a new company.
Office culture, IMO, is not about the way you work. It's not about feeling pride about getting work done. It's about being in surroundings that are comfortable, stimulating, and motivating, and being surrounded by people that you can trust, respect, be respected by, learn from, and never feel subservient to. A good culture is one where everyone feels like an equal; just a bunch of nice and talented people working TOGETHER and not against each other.
- < 2nd paragraph. So true.centro
- I'm happy to say that after about a month at Ogilvy, I'm feeling everything in the second paragraph. :)mg33
- someone has to be in chargemonospaced
- True mono, but they still have to choose between friend or foe.
mg33
- uan0
good food. free food. and not talking 'bout work during lunch
- CALLES0
definitely more sex amongst yourselves
- dmay0
These guys seem to have a great office culture:
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/c…
- i_monk0
Learn your employees' names and make some effort to talk to them at least once in the four years they've been there...
What? That isn't a common problem? Just here, then...
- I think it might be time to polish up your CV, there, son!Continuity
- Get out of my brain!i_monk
- There are only 8 people, I'm sure he knows their names and talks to them all regularlymonospaced
- *woosh*i_monk
- oh... haha, sorrymonospaced