office culture
Workplace social norms
Office culture encompasses the shared values, behaviors, and unwritten rules that shape workplace dynamics—how people dress, communicate, socialize, and advance.
It includes everything from whether doors stay open to whether lunch is eaten at desks.
A toxic office culture breeds dysfunction; a healthy one fosters collaboration.
The phrase often implies white-collar work environments with their particular rituals: meetings, email etiquette, break room small talk.
- water cooler talkInformal workplace chatter
- meetingsOrganized group assemblies
- reply allRespond to all recipients
- professionalismWorkplace conduct standards
- micromanagementExcessive supervisory control
mission statement · mentorship · conflict resolution · transparency · camaraderie · company retreat · feedback · toxic · accountability · passive-aggressive · jargon · ethics · unwritten rules · hierarchy · performance reviews · open-door policy · servant leadership · workplace norms
- workplacehours, cubicle, desk job, holiday party, desk
- office lifecubicle, desk job, desk jobs, full-time job, nine-to-five
- business booksbusiness ethics, business models, business plans, corporate strategy, management theory
- generationsbaby boomers, millennials, Gen Z, Gen X, baby boomer
- workplace wellnesswellness, wellness program, corporate wellness, health screening, wellness programs
office culturestartup culture
Entrepreneurial workplace norms
flat hierarchy · counterculture · grassroots organization · disorganization