Articles about workplace culture

In new memo, Microsoft CEO addresses ‘enigma’ of layoffs amid record profits and AI investments

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella addressed the growing internal unease inside the tech giant Thursday morning, laying out the company’s priorities… Read More

Perfect pivot: Mystery hits $100M valuation after shift from date facilitator to employee engagement

Seattle-based Mystery pivoted during the pandemic to a B2B event-facilitation model intended to boost employee engagement and morale at companies.… Read More

Book excerpt: ‘The Butterfly Impact,’ and how changes in workplace culture can start with you

A crappy culture will surely slow any business down and make it more difficult to achieve goals and hit performance… Read More

Amazon plans to investigate discrimination within AWS after hundreds of employees sign petition

Amazon says it plans to investigate allegations of discrimination and bias within its Amazon Web Services cloud computing unit after… Read More

GeekWire Awards 2021: Check out the 5 finalists for Workplace of the Year

After a year in which the definition of “workplace” became especially fluid, our understanding of what makes for a great… Read More

Seattle’s F5 Tower rises above in ‘Cloud City’ with perks and views to wow employees and customers

In a bid to wow and win over customers, F5 Networks put a splashy Customer Engagement Center on the top… Read More

Accomplished pianist’s startup Play At Work strikes a chord with music lessons for busy tech workers

Lena Begun has been playing music since the age of 5. She attended a school for gifted children in Moscow… Read More

Check out this startup’s slush(ie) fund: Apptentive employees try to crowdsource a drinks machine

The wacky end-of-winter weather in Seattle, which neared 80 degrees earlier this week, apparently has the employees of one startup… Read More

We’ll miss you, Scout: In a city where dogs at work are the norm, GeekWire loses a best friend

Like any self-respecting Seattle workplace, especially those tied to tech these days, GeekWire is a dog friendly environment. Like any… Read More

FlowLight flashes red when workmates should leave you alone ‘in the zone’

It’s a classic conundrum for coders: Sometimes you get so absorbed in what you’re doing that you hate being interrupted,… Read More

Here’s how the founder of Axiom convinced Concur President Elena Donio to leave the job she loved

Elena Donio takes workplace culture seriously. During her 18 years at Concur, serving as the company’s president for the last… Read More

An Amazonian’s data-driven response to the NYT’s story about Amazon’s ‘bruising workplace’

[Editor’s Note: This post by Amazon employee Nick Ciubotariu, Head of Infrastructure Development, Amazon.com Search Experience, is reprinted here with the… Read More