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There are diversity issues with that approach
I'm all for active ways to build a healthy and inclusive working culture. One of my objections to the "make your staff share their personal lives" con is that it's the opposite of inclusive. Aside from shifting the buck onto them.
"I choose my own friends", which is what I said, doesn't mean I think company culture should be left to that. That way lies clubs for the boys and everybody else missing out. Company culture is about working relationships, not personal relationships.
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Every company I've worked for has just paid for regular piss ups and left us to work it out for ourselves.
There are diversity issues with that approach (both for people who don't come from drinking cultures and for people who come from no-holds-barred piss-up cultures*) but at least there's no role-play.
(* I may or may not be in one of those groups)