My job was to promote my company’s great culture. Then I got laid off via Zoom

It was a real lesson in the limits—and power—of ‘workplace culture.’

Like many tech workers, my summer started with getting laid off over Zoom. Just after the call ended, I started laughing. The last task I’d done as an employed person was to put the finishing touches on a blog post highlighting my now-former place of work’s strong company culture. C’mon, that’s funny.