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posted by Jason Kottke  ·  gift link

Human friendly companies?

Peter Merholz asks: is your company designed for humans or fleshy automatons?

We’re placed in hierarchical org charts, remnant of railroad and factory operations of the 19th century, and find ourselves in silos that prevent us from collaborating with our colleagues.

We’re given job titles with an explicit set of responsibilities, and discouraged to perform outside that boundary.