Oracle

Great working and learning environment, with a real opportunity for personal development. If you want it, no one will shout at you for doing the bare minimum; it's up to you what you decide to spend your time doing.

Within my team, there was a distinct lack of social activities. More team-building exercises and events would help.

There is also a slow corporate process involved in doing anything, from hiring new staff to requesting a wrist-support mouse mat. It is a waste of time and usually results in staff being unhappy.

Encourage your managers to take their staff for a coffee once a week at a bare minimum; enforce friendships.

Ideally, the staff should be friends. By allowing some cash from the budget to go toward team-building exercises, the staff will enjoy working together more, and work will become less of a chore.