The Corporate Happiness Treadmill and the Case for Doing Less(0xff.nu)
37 points by hxii | 31 comments
A personal blog essay arguing against the corporate pursuit of constant growth and happiness, advocating for doing less at work to avoid burnout.
#corporate-culture on Hacker News
12 stories tagged corporate-culture, newest first.
OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken'(theguardian.com)
253 points by jethronethro | 207 comments
Guardian news article reporting that OpenAI safety leader David Robinson has quit, warning the company's culture is 'broken' and urging more care with AI.
I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken(theatlantic.com)
429 points by Brajeshwar | 706 comments
An Atlantic essay by David Robinson explaining why he quit OpenAI, arguing its culture and the industry's approach to AI safety are broken.
The Enterprise Experience(churchofturing.github.io)
458 points by Improvement | 130 comments
A personal blog post by a software developer reflecting snarkily on one year working at a large enterprise after a decade in startups and SMEs.
Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate(corporate.watch)
354 points by steadycourse | 152 comments
A simple web page that shows the current business quarter, week number within the quarter, and days remaining until quarter end.
A marriage proposal spoken in office jargon(mcsweeneys.net)
341 points by ohjeez | 193 comments
A McSweeney's humor piece by Evan Barber presenting a marriage proposal written entirely in corporate office jargon.
Advantages of incompetent management(yosefk.com)
451 points by zdw | 216 comments
A July 2024 blog essay by Yossi Kreinin arguing that competent management makes some desirable outcomes, like efficiency, harder to achieve than incompetent management does.
Please don't mention AI again(ludic.mataroa.blog)
583 points by ludicity | 373 comments
A Ludicity blog post by a data scientist ranting against corporate AI hype and organizations rushing to adopt AI without competence.
What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane(prospect.org)
735 points by doom2 | 446 comments
American Prospect article by Maureen Tkacik on how Boeing's management drove out experienced engineers and workers who knew how to build planes.
Culture Change at Google(social.clawhammer.net)
436 points by kfogel | 363 comments
Personal blog essay by Ben Collins-Sussman reflecting on how Google's internal culture changed over his 18 years working there.
Mourning Google(tbray.org)
387 points by cdme | 317 comments
Tim Bray's blog post reflecting on joining Google in 2010 and lamenting how the joy has left the company amid 2024 layoffs.
At this company, we are family(pboyd.io)
451 points by dharmit | 255 comments
A satirical blog post written as a parent's layoff-style letter terminating a child's family membership, mocking companies that call themselves a family.