Oppressive Work Cultures — Intentional or Not?
What to look out for with company policies and what you can do.
It’s common knowledge how the directors of a company, and to an extent its employees, can influence the future direction of the company — whether it’s through visionary planning, being in the right place at the right time, or just the learned ability to rinse their customers for a frighteningly large profit¹.
However, how a company treats its own employees is often carefully hidden from view.
Companies can all too easily operate against the general wellbeing and prosperity of their own employees in the name of preserving their own profit and therefore existence.
This is a complex business as a company can do this purposefully, indirectly, or innocuously — but they’re all equally dire if you’re one of the cogs in the machine upon which the profitability² of the company depends.
Let’s take a look at each of these in turn.
Purposeful Negation
You’d have to be a big company to get away with this either in terms of sheer profit or in terms of being a popular and desirable place to work in spite of the (often) common knowledge of the conditions of employment.
