Workplace culture can look polished on the outside while hiding toxic behavior and serious legal risk underneath. In my follow-up conversation with Fractional General Counsel and Attorney Tim Papuga, we discuss:
• Defining workplace culture as lived values
• Reading culture quickly through respect, trust, and accountability
• Separating a single bad actor from a leadership and culture failure
• Understanding why policies and handbooks fail without real enforcement
• Clarifying the at-will employment myth and how it fuels bad decisions
• Why conducting workplace investigations is important
• Choosing internal vs external investigators based on size, power dynamics, and credibility
