No, not really. Where I work now is fantastic and we have great leadership. The moment your original visionary leader leaves and someone with an MBA gets in their place, it all goes to shit. This is LITERALLY what happened to Google and to Apple. Both super dynamic companies with great culture who were then gutted to generate shareholder value.
I wonder if it’s inevitable that anywhere with enough humans working together will reach this point eventually?
stoly@lemmy.world 1 week ago
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
From what I’ve seen it starts with a few people who abuse the niceties, or the first downturn, or both, and suddenly they’ve got an excuse to strip it all back.
It’s always one or the other that starts it. You have an office game console and someone brings their kids who spill pop on it or they take the games home. You get that guy who takes a box of snacks home and the CEO complains for like 2 years about it. You get someone who orders pay per view on a business trip. Etc.
Once you get to like 300 employees this threshold starts getting reliably exceeded.
DireTech@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Since when is a 300 person company a startup? I feel like you lose any claim to that long before you hit 100.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Yeah, but that’s the size where things definitely start dying.
50 is probably my ideal company size.
Devmapall@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
When money and power are funneled to the few then yes. Something more cooperative or democratic probably wouldn’t have the same intensity of the problem.
I think it’s only inevitable because of how our society is structured.