Joined: Cameo - Applied (facilitator). Charlie - TodayTix, Libby - WhiteHat, Danielle - Permutive, Sara - Ovo, Danni - GlobalBrandsGroup, Ghilaine Chan - Brilliant and Human, Marie - Learnerbly

Context

Podcast based on book "Abolish Silicon Valley" touching on culture of Silicon Valley.

Abolish Silicon Valley, with Wendy Liu and Carl Miller | Intelligence Squared on acast

Two specific instances from the author's experience: lanyards for contractors vs full-timers + naming and shaming from people to others

Roundtable discussion

Foreword

Inclusion starts with psychological safety: enabling everyone to feel safe to use their voice.

re:Work

Code-named Project Aristotle - a tribute to Aristotle’s quote, "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts" (as the Google researchers believed employees can do more working together than alone)

How do you treat contractors?

If they're from the US you can't invite them to all things - but if they're simply introduced to the team casually it makes everything clearer and nicer. Perhaps whoever gets a freelancer involved should update everyone about who and why during the all hands.