Hacker News with Generative AI: Corporate Culture

Intel says employees must return to the office 4 days a week (oregonlive.com)
New Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan told workers Thursday that they must be on site four days a week beginning Sept. 1, a step toward improving collaboration as he looks to remake the chipmaker.
Remote Work, Corporate Culture, Technology, Leadership
9 points by speckx 17 hours ago | 0 comments
The Simplicity Fetish (cutlefish.substack.com)
I believe the corporate world is awash in Simplicity Fetishism. It is damaging, draining, and ultimately only beneficial to those who benefit from the power dynamic.
Simplicity, Corporate Culture, Power Dynamics
13 points by staranjeet 6 days ago | 3 comments
Ask HN: Why is my F500 employer okay with paying 5x to freelancers? (ycombinator.com)
I've changed some facts a bit. The story still stands.<p>This is definitely one of those times where I'm breaking my brain because something isn't logical and I haven't yet understand the cultural side of things, or hidden reasons I haven't identified yet. In almost all aspects of life, I don't have this issue anymore, but corporate life is new to me.<p>So could you please help me out?
Freelancing, Corporate Culture, Hiring Practices, Compensation, Business
40 points by mettamage 7 days ago | 89 comments
Ask HN: What are your unpopular opinions about programming? (ycombinator.com)
I would say that working as a programmer in a corporate environment is a bit similar to being paid to be a novel writer by people who don't know how to read, but absolutely want to tell you how to do your job properly.
Programming, Software Engineering, Corporate Culture
17 points by polygot 12 days ago | 49 comments
Remote Work's Long-Term Effects: Why Dell and Amazon Are Bringing Employees Back (timestripe.com)
Major companies are aggressively rolling back remote work policies in early 2025, with Dell Technologies eliminating hybrid arrangements in March, requiring five-day office attendance and limiting advancement for remote workers.
Remote Work, Workforce Trends, Corporate Culture, Technology
21 points by duckleg 20 days ago | 29 comments
At Chrysler I Kept a Glossary of Ridiculous Corporate Terms Engineers Overused (theautopian.com)
When I became a full-time engineer at Chrysler at age 21, there were certain elements of the corporate environment that I found flat-out odd.
Automotive, Engineering, Corporate Culture, Language
14 points by rmason 26 days ago | 7 comments
The Last Stand of the Corporate Peacock (wrk3.substack.com)
After ‘Peak Office’ why Return-to-Office mandates are more about strutting than strategy
Corporate Culture, Workplace Trends, Remote Work
26 points by jenny6060 29 days ago | 56 comments
Anonymous Corpo Confessions (baserow.io)
Anonymous Confessions, Corporate Culture, Business, Software
12 points by Auscos 31 days ago | 10 comments
When Corporate Branding Goes Wrong (nytimes.com)
A British investment firm restored most of the vowels to its name after a widely ridiculed revamp that showed the pitfalls of trying to look cool in the digital age.
Branding, Corporate Culture, Marketing, Digital Age, Business
28 points by samclemens 49 days ago | 14 comments
Performance Measures and Incentives, Lessons from a Famous Corporate Implosion (coyoteblog.com)
To understand why organizations grow senescent, get fat, and fail – whether they be public or private – there is probably no topic more important than performance measures and incentives.
Business, Incentives, Corporate Culture, Failure, Organizational Growth
10 points by speckx 50 days ago | 0 comments
Boeing's Bean-Counters Courted the 737 MAX Disaster (2019) (thedailybeast.com)
Just when the smallest jet should have been replaced with a new model, the company fell into tight-fisted hands—with fatal consequences.
Boeing, Aviation, Accidents, Corporate Culture, Investigations
23 points by herecomethefuzz 55 days ago | 1 comments
Google's Sergey Brin Asks Workers to Spend More Time in the Office (nytimes.com)
Google, Corporate Culture, Work-Life Balance, Technology
59 points by tgma 57 days ago | 29 comments
Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate (corporate.watch)
We are 7 weeks into Q1, 2025 (week 7 of 13)
Humor, Time Management, Corporate Culture
392 points by steadycourse 61 days ago | 171 comments
Kill the "user": Musings of a disillusioned technologist (pastagang.cc)
Unrestrained, raw technological possibilities are scary. That it is why it is the duty of the corporation to package, sanitise, file down and finish with a coat of beige (or the current Pantone colour of the year, if we’re being extra fruity), lest “users” hold them in the wrong way.
Technology, Corporate Culture, User Experience
176 points by tobr 80 days ago | 103 comments
The Severance writer and cast on corporate cults, sci-fi, and more (arstechnica.com)
Cult documentaries, science fiction classics are named as the show's influences.
Television, Science Fiction, Corporate Culture
69 points by asplake 84 days ago | 54 comments
Ask HN: Experiences promoting corporate propaganda in your job? (ycombinator.com)
Hi HN, we always hear about discreet government propaganda divisions, but I want to know about the corporate ones, which are probably as if not more effective and widespread as they are a big part of our lives, especially given the world we are fast heading into. Thanks.
Marketing, Propaganda, Corporate Culture, Ethics
5 points by t0lo 89 days ago | 7 comments
Trust Issues: The closed corporate ecosystem is the problem (schneier.com)
For a technology that seems startling in its modernity, AI sure has a long history. Google Translate, OpenAI chatbots, and Meta AI image generators are built on decades of advancements in linguistics, signal processing, statistics, and other fields going back to the early days of computing—and, often, on seed funding from the U.S. Department of Defense. But today’s tools are hardly the intentional product of the diverse generations of innovators that came before.
Artificial Intelligence, History, Technology, Security, Corporate Culture
15 points by rntn 120 days ago | 0 comments
Remote Work Is Increasingly a Right of the Rich (nytimes.com)
When it comes to remote work, the C-suite wants workers to do as they say, not as they do.
Remote Work, Inequality, Work-Life Balance, Corporate Culture
5 points by mooreds 127 days ago | 0 comments
The online reaction to the killing of United Healthcare CEO should be a warning (ycombinator.com)
The fact that some person got angry enough to kill a high profile target isn't that extraordinary. It's happens, not frequently, but it happens with some regularity. It's the reaction that people are having, the glee at watching him die, that is extraordinary.
Social Media, Violence, Healthcare, Corporate Culture
11 points by moosedman 141 days ago | 0 comments
How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment (nytimes.com)
Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google systematically told employees to destroy messages, avoid certain words and copy the lawyers as often as possible.
Google, Antitrust, Culture, Corporate Culture, Legal Practices
203 points by tysone 157 days ago | 222 comments
Amazon Makes It Harder for Disabled Employees to Work from Home (bloomberg.com)
Amazon.com Inc. is making it harder for disabled employees to get permission to work from home, underscoring the tech giant’s determination to get its corporate workforce back to the office five days a week.
Amazon, Disability, Remote Work, Corporate Culture
283 points by belter 164 days ago | 341 comments
Intel bringing back free office coffee to boost morale after a rough year (businessinsider.com)
Intel will once again offer free coffee and tea to its employees after slashing the perks as part of its cost-cutting efforts.
Intel, Employee Morale, Corporate Culture, Business, Perks
6 points by RyeCombinator 169 days ago | 5 comments
Meta fires staffers for using $25 meal credits on household goods (arstechnica.com)
Meta has fired about two dozen staff in Los Angeles for using their $25 meal credits to buy household items including acne pads, wine glasses, and laundry detergent.
Meta, Business, Employee Misconduct, Corporate Culture
18 points by botanical 190 days ago | 32 comments
Meta fires staffers for using $25 meal credits on household goods (arstechnica.com)
Meta has fired about two dozen staff in Los Angeles for using their $25 meal credits to buy household items including acne pads, wine glasses, and laundry detergent.
Meta, Business, Corporate Culture, Technology, Ethics
8 points by dtparr 191 days ago | 1 comments
Dell's sudden 5-day RTO order leaves parents scrambling to find childcare (businessinsider.com)
Dell told all sales staff to return to the office five days a week, giving two days' notice.The policy panicked parents and has led to crowded offices, Dell workers told Business Insider.
Remote Work, Work-Life Balance, Corporate Culture, Parenting
60 points by achristmascarl 199 days ago | 91 comments
Amazon RTO Edict Reflects Fear New Hires Don't Know Company Culture (bloomberg.com)
Amazon.com Inc.’s controversial decision to bring corporate employees back to the office full-time reflects executives’ concerns that recent recruits don’t understand the company’s unique culture.
Amazon, Corporate Culture, Remote Work, Workforce Management
5 points by ipsocannibal 200 days ago | 2 comments
What Went Wrong at Blizzard Entertainment (theatlantic.com)
A multibillion-dollar success story quickly turned into a curse.
Video Games, Business, Corporate Culture
8 points by lordleft 201 days ago | 2 comments
Ask HN: Kodak, VW, Intel – Why big companies fail? (ycombinator.com)
Understandable for startups - product isn't something anybody needs or not enough cash but why big companies with a proven product would fail?
Business, Failure, Startups, Innovation, Corporate Culture
17 points by wg0 217 days ago | 38 comments
Amazon employees blast new RTO policy in internal messages (businessinsider.com)
Amazon employees criticized a new five-day RTO mandate in internal Slack messages.
Amazon, Remote Work, Corporate Culture
5 points by thunderbong 221 days ago | 0 comments
Secrets of Corporate HR Department (reddit.com)
A friend of mine, who works as an HR manager at a MASSIVE corporation you likely know (you probably own their products), shared something deeply unsettling with me. She revealed how her company manipulates job listings to test how desperate people are for work. They’re testing how low they can go on salary and benefits before people stop applying.
Human Resources, Job Hunting, Corporate Culture, Employment
27 points by rainhacker 229 days ago | 2 comments