Happy to Work Here: Understanding and Improving the Culture at Workwriting

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2024-01-01 · 1 min read · Edit on Pyrite

Happy to Work Here: Understanding and Improving the Culture at Work is the most recent collaborative work by the atlantic-systems-guild principals — DeMarco, timothy-lister, peter-hruschka, steve-mcmenamin, and suzanne-robertson. The book extends the peopleware-thesis into a broader treatment of workplace culture, building on the decades of consulting experience that informed both peopleware and adrenaline-junkies-and-template-zombies.

The title signals continuity with the humanistic tradition of peopleware: the argument that productive knowledge work depends on organizations creating conditions where people genuinely want to work, rather than extracting labor through the spanish-theory-of-management.