About 10+ people (5 Constellation members) have mentioned that there is social pressure to defer or act a certain way when at Constellation.
At least as written, this is so broad as to be effectively meaningless. All organisations exert social pressure on members to act in a certain way (e.g. to wipe down the exercise machines after use). Similarly, basically all employers require some degree of deference to management; typical practice is that management solicit feedback from workers but in turn compliance with instructions is mandatory.
What you describe could be bad… or it could be totally typical. There’s no real way for the reader to judge based on what you’ve written.
Hi Larks, thanks for the pushback here. We agree that this is hard to judge. Unfortunately, some of what this was was about the general atmosphere of the place which is unfortunately a bit fuzzy.
People said they feel a pressure conform / defer to these people as well for example at lunchtime conversations. People have also said they can’t act as free or as loose as they would like in Constellation. So it’s maybe something like feeling like you have to behave in a certain way or in line with what you perceive the funders and senior leadership want in order to fit in.
Although this may be present in other offices, we think this pressure is more pronounce at Constellation than other coworking spaces like the Open Phil offices or Lightcone, where we think there is more of an ability to say and do what you want.
We know this probably isn’t as satisfying as it could be, but appreciate you taking the time to point this out and we will edit the post to acknowledge this.
At least as written, this is so broad as to be effectively meaningless. All organisations exert social pressure on members to act in a certain way (e.g. to wipe down the exercise machines after use). Similarly, basically all employers require some degree of deference to management; typical practice is that management solicit feedback from workers but in turn compliance with instructions is mandatory.
What you describe could be bad… or it could be totally typical. There’s no real way for the reader to judge based on what you’ve written.
Hi Larks, thanks for the pushback here. We agree that this is hard to judge. Unfortunately, some of what this was was about the general atmosphere of the place which is unfortunately a bit fuzzy.
People said they feel a pressure conform / defer to these people as well for example at lunchtime conversations. People have also said they can’t act as free or as loose as they would like in Constellation. So it’s maybe something like feeling like you have to behave in a certain way or in line with what you perceive the funders and senior leadership want in order to fit in.
Although this may be present in other offices, we think this pressure is more pronounce at Constellation than other coworking spaces like the Open Phil offices or Lightcone, where we think there is more of an ability to say and do what you want.
We know this probably isn’t as satisfying as it could be, but appreciate you taking the time to point this out and we will edit the post to acknowledge this.
Update: the post has been edited.