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  • 1.  Workplace Culture Key to Growing Your Firm?

    Posted 20 days ago

    In remote working, workplace culture does not need to be cultivated



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    Stephen Leach C.Eng, M.ASCE
    Consultant Executive
    Luling LA
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  • 2.  RE: Workplace Culture Key to Growing Your Firm?
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    Posted 16 days ago

    I recommend you talk to a young person about this. There are tools to create a platform for spontaneous conversations, memes and everything you would expect as a part of workplace culture. When they do get together in person, they are not strangers. I'm not a young person myself, so it is not as natural to me, but younger folks have no problem with it. 



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    Brad Watson P.E., M.ASCE
    Senior Engineer
    Alvarado TX
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  • 3.  RE: Workplace Culture Key to Growing Your Firm?

    Posted 12 days ago

    I work in an environment that is comprised of two consulting firms and a public sector client. Before covid, we all worked out of the client office, and as of recently, that is true again for a certain number of days a week. Before Microsoft released Teams and we needed a non-company-specific location to connect digitally, my boss created a Slack workspace for us all to gather in. We had upwards of 10 channels for different topics - some for specific tasks and others for complete tomfoolery, augments about where to go to lunch, comments about strange emails from building management or stories heard over cube walls, etc. 

    Inside jokes were invented and cemented there, and emoji reactions were taken as valid responses to certain questions. I will acknowledge that it helped that we were all working physically together first before Slack came into the picture - but I have seen successful interpersonal bonds created digitally across many platforms over the last 2 decades. Most recently, Discord has been the place for people to gather. Its actually very similar to Slack, but with the additional emphasis of having voice channels in addition to text channels, since it was originally meant for online gaming. You can find a Discord for almost anything these days. 



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    Christopher Seigel P.E., M.ASCE
    Civil Engineer
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  • 4.  RE: Workplace Culture Key to Growing Your Firm?

    Posted 11 days ago

    Chris thanks for the comment. Interesting that your leader created a component of workplace culture providing a platform and structure for communication which is key. If guidelines and platforms etc are not provided to encourage a more structured approach to workplace culture, then it will happen in an informal and unstructured way which has pitfalls for teams and organisations. Some of the pitfalls include dominant team members determining the culture, time wastage due to irrelevant/ uncontrolled discussions, all team members not fully involved in various team activities and discussions



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    Stephen Leach C.Eng, M.ASCE
    Consultant Executive
    Luling LA
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