Culture
Mandatory fun finally met its match: everyone's calendar
Forced parties, trivia afternoons, and team-building retreats survived the budget cuts they shouldn't have — and lost the workforce they were for.
Kara Williams · July 23, 2026
Culture: Arts, Media and Society
Company culture reported through people rather than value statements. Articles look at the unwritten rules of an organization, how status is distributed inside teams, which behaviors get rewarded without being named, and how culture shifts after growth, layoffs or a change of ownership. For anyone responsible for a team.
Company culture reported through people rather than value statements. Articles look at the unwritten rules of an organization, how status is distributed inside teams, which behaviors get rewarded without being named, and how culture shifts after growth, layoffs or a change of ownership. For anyone responsible for a team.
Culture
Employee recognition programs work — when they're slightly embarrassing not to have
The research on recognition is clearer than the tooling industry admits: frequency and specificity beat platforms and points, every time.
Kara Williams · June 30, 2026
Culture
Onboarding quietly became the highest-ROI culture project
Remote-era hires who never got a real first month churned at record rates. The companies that fixed it built rituals, not orientations.
Kara Williams · June 7, 2026
Culture
The lunch break quietly disappeared while nobody was counting
Desk lunches became the default and the data says it costs more in afternoon output than it saves in time.
Amara Okonkwo · May 16, 2026
Culture
The perks that survived 2025 are the ones nobody photographs
Nap pods and kombucha taps went first. What's left — flexibility, leave, and money — is less Instagrammable and better retained.
Kara Williams · April 23, 2026