{"id":8157,"date":"2020-07-18T08:58:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T14:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8157"},"modified":"2020-07-18T08:58:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T14:58:58","slug":"what-happens-when-a-kumbaya-office-culture-meets-the-business-realities-of-a-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8157","title":{"rendered":"What happens when a kumbaya office culture meets the business realities of a pandemic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/17\/technology\/airbnb-coronavirus-layoffs-.html\">Erin Griffith<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\" style=\"margin: 0px 20px 0.78125rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, \"times new roman\", times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(100% - 40px); max-width: 600px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">\n<blockquote><p>Start-ups that sell everything from mattresses to data-warehousing software have long used \u201cmaking the world a better place\u201d-style mission statements to energize and motivate their workers. But as the economic fallout from the coronavirus persists, many of those gauzy mantras have given way to harsh realities like<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><u><a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/01\/technology\/virus-start-ups-pummeled-layoffs-unwinding.html\" title=\"\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(50, 104, 145); text-decoration-line: underline\">budget cuts, layoffs and bottom lines<\/a><\/u>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\" style=\"margin: 0px 20px 0.78125rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, \"times new roman\", times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(100% - 40px); max-width: 600px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">\n<blockquote><p>That now puts companies with a \u201ccommitment\u201d culture at the highest risk of losing what made them successful, said Ethan Mollick, an entrepreneurship professor at the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Wharton School.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erin Griffith: Start-ups that sell everything from mattresses to data-warehousing software have long used \u201cmaking the world a better place\u201d-style mission statements to energize and motivate their workers. But as the economic fallout from the coronavirus persists, many of those gauzy mantras have given way to harsh realities like&nbsp;budget cuts, layoffs and bottom lines. That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8157"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8158,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8157\/revisions\/8158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}