Culture
To help retain talent and unfortunately, sometimes to help employees overlook negative aspects of a company companies employ “Culture”.
When many companies say “culture” what do they mean? I have heard.
We want to be like Google
I’m not really sure what that means, most of the time the person has not worked at Google or event knows anyone there.
We want to build a cool environment where people are free to be themselves, have an open schedule, and really promote the company as a great place
These are some lofty goals, but how to they play out usually? In many cases they are only words. I have seen those goals play out as insane deadlines, worked weekends, additional pressure, planned “culture” activities that get cancelled.
Why?
Because in most cases, “culture” is used as a retention methodology, a means to keep people around. The concern around “culture” should stem from the care and concern of people not the concern for the bottom line. To have a successful “culture” at work people need to be held above the business.
We can illustrate it this way.
