[koliber]

I agree that very often, the situation is as you have described, frownie. I have had my share of jobs and some were better and some worse. However, here at 15Five, and at one other job, I honestly felt like the company truly cared for its employees.

Of course the company must make money, and of course it must hire people and pay them a salary in order to get that done. You would have to be disillusioned to think that just because a company has values and a culture it will ignore all else. But there can be more than than that to it, and in this case, there is. Taking good care of employees and treating them right while providing a comfortable environment DOES pay dividends to the company. I cannot imagine a better win-win.

Many people are probably disillusioned because they have been burned in the past. They no longer believe in values, culture, and WHY. I cannot blame them. Fool me once, they say, right? However, I want to throw this out there and say that there are still places where employees are treated like people, like the work they do, are satisfied and fairly rewarded. Calling that an illusion is not fair just because you have not had a chance to experience that.