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I do think some companies take it too far. I worked for an international real estate company that was very cultish. I left after 4 months because it was so strange. They called it a "unique company culture," and it was...just not in a good way.
I just wanted to do my work, but we were constantly interrupted by some "voluntary" activity that was required. And when I told my boss I couldn't complete my work when I was being pulled away for at least an hour a day, she told me we had laptops so that we could finish work at home... No thanks.
There is a massive generational component to corporate culture. It was a huge thing in the 80s and 90s, and a lot of those people are still in upper management. You have to remember that in their day, they planned on having a career at the same company, so culture could take hold. Today we plan on a couple years in many cases, so there is no way for culture to stick even if they're still pushing it.
In the companies (the few that exist) where people make a home for themselves, there is still a cultural component. Sometimes it's downright creepy.
There is a massive generational component to corporate culture. It was a huge thing in the 80s and 90s, and a lot of those people are still in upper management. You have to remember that in their day, they planned on having a career at the same company, so culture could take hold. Today we plan on a couple years in many cases, so there is no way for culture to stick even if they're still pushing it.
In the companies (the few that exist) where people make a home for themselves, there is still a cultural component. Sometimes it's downright creepy.
As I mentioned before, it's as much or more a facet of companies considered X-Gen or Millennial culture.
Google, for instance, most definitely has a corporate culture all are expected to conform to. A number of Gen-X small businesses will expect all workers to party together and pretty much be "like" each other.
Companies like Google/Apple have the advantage that anyone who applies there will probably be very similar to the next person, both in terms of politics & general interests.
Hmmmm....nah, I don't really see it. I worked during the dot.com boom of the 1990s and it seemed like companies were even more cultish than they are now.
Most people I've known at most companies I've worked for roll their eyes at "company culture" e-mails and other rah-rah crap sent out by their company's "Chief People Officer." They see that stuff for what it really is...and ignore it.
So do I.
Is that even possible? lol. The "dotcom" boom may be part of the reason why basically every company is like this now.
All this corparate culture is pure propaganda, to make the company look like a great place to work for. All this fake hoopla, only to be canned on a whim.
My company recruits it's workforce largely from fraternities/sororities and the military and attempts to instill the idea that the company is the same thing into our sales force.
Every company has a culture. It is only in recent years they have decided to attempt to make "culture" an attribute and something positive.
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