freedom to own my work without excessive policies / interference. ability to see the impact my work has. being able to go outside of my work scope and try out new things. also, language classes / biz trips

not watering down messages. If you look at the most recent leadership team message about reduced bonuses, you can tell someone else wrote it, there are no references to numbers (specific is something we preach in SMART goals but CEO doesn't write it)

we don't need to work together better. most of our work is individual contributions, just being next to each other doesn't do anything additionally beneficial for many of us. In fact, it can be a distraction. What *would* help is cross-discipline teams focused on revenue generation

keep pace with inflation at minimum, if we are unable to afford purchasing an average home, it's hard to give it our all here. also, just because the business had a bad year doesn't mean we did poorly as individuals. you can trade off compensation for flexibility (more remote work, example)

we don't have a culture, more specifically, we don't have values that we clearly understand. quiz an average employee about it. The most positive thing is we respect each other. It's ok to not be a die-hard company employee, but it's not okay to not do your best as an individual. we do well at that