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title: "The Four Types of Company Culture"
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I haven't written anything in ages, a very long time. I was thinking though the other day about company culture and how if affects your work life and wellbeing.

I concluded there are two basic cultures to be concerned about in a work environment:

- **People Culture:** How nice and supportive are the people you work with?
- **Work Culture:** How well is the work organised and executed?

Both of these will have a significant affect on an employee's wellbeing. If people are bullies wellbeing will plummet, and if the work is poorly organised frustration will grow. 

I've put together a little chart to highlight the four types of company these cultures produce based on a binary good / bad axis.

![Company quality based on culture](/assets/img/company_quality.png)

Obviously companies are not this simple and binary, and very few get the people and work culture perfect. But personally I feel employees need to focus on the people culture of company when judging the quality of a company. It's much easier to cope with a disorganised work environment if the people are decent and reasonable. Whereas it's unlikely even the best executed work is going to compensate for working with arseholes.

And in my own recent experience I've found working at companies with decent people cultures has dramatically improved my wellbeing.
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layout: post
title: "The Four Types of Company Culture"
description: "I've found working at companies with decent people cultures has dramatically improved my wellbeing."
tags: [management, culture, teams, developers]
published: true
---
I haven't written anything in ages, a very long time. I was thinking though the other day about company culture and how if affects your work life and wellbeing.

I concluded there are two basic cultures to be concerned about in a work environment:

- **People Culture:** How nice and supportive are the people you work with?
- **Work Culture:** How well is the work organised and executed?

Both of these will have a significant affect on an employee's wellbeing. If people are bullies wellbeing will plummet, and if the work is poorly organised frustration will grow. 

I've put together a little chart to highlight the four types of company these cultures produce based on a binary good / bad axis.

![Company quality based on culture](/assets/img/company_quality.png)

Obviously companies are not this simple and binary, and very few get the people and work culture perfect. But personally I feel employees need to focus on the people culture of company when judging the quality of a company. It's much easier to cope with a disorganised work environment if the people are decent and reasonable. Whereas it's unlikely even the best executed work is going to compensate for working with arseholes.

And in my own recent experience I've found working at companies with decent people cultures has dramatically improved my wellbeing.
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