+1 for “liberal attitude towards employee usage of conference rooms”; Epic does this, and it’s excellent.
Another good practice from Epic: They have a system for registering one’s expertise—“I’m really good at Visual Basic, call me if you have an issue”—which they allow employees to use for non-work interests. That’s how I found Epic’s Magic: the Gathering club, and how I found enough people to start a corporate EA group there (the system gave me an easy way to contact people with a stated interest in psychology or philosophy).
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Was the “massive drinking” example from resource you found, or from your own personal experience? I can imagine that practice creating social support, but it also seems to have an especially high risk of feeling “invasive”—for people who don’t drink at all, people who feel pressured to drink too much, people who are trying to cut down on their drinking, etc.
“Massive drinking” was reported by a friend on my FB wall. I agree with you that it’s fraught, but not necessarily more so than the “stand up if this applies to you” game, which one person on FB objected to pretty strongly.
My experience at Wave was that there were things they did that felt supportive and welcoming, that at my previous job would have felt invasive and required an emotional performance. I’m not sure there is a substitute for a healthy workplace.
+1 for “liberal attitude towards employee usage of conference rooms”; Epic does this, and it’s excellent.
Another good practice from Epic: They have a system for registering one’s expertise—“I’m really good at Visual Basic, call me if you have an issue”—which they allow employees to use for non-work interests. That’s how I found Epic’s Magic: the Gathering club, and how I found enough people to start a corporate EA group there (the system gave me an easy way to contact people with a stated interest in psychology or philosophy).
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Was the “massive drinking” example from resource you found, or from your own personal experience? I can imagine that practice creating social support, but it also seems to have an especially high risk of feeling “invasive”—for people who don’t drink at all, people who feel pressured to drink too much, people who are trying to cut down on their drinking, etc.
“Massive drinking” was reported by a friend on my FB wall. I agree with you that it’s fraught, but not necessarily more so than the “stand up if this applies to you” game, which one person on FB objected to pretty strongly.
My experience at Wave was that there were things they did that felt supportive and welcoming, that at my previous job would have felt invasive and required an emotional performance. I’m not sure there is a substitute for a healthy workplace.