Workplace culture can look polished on the outside while hiding toxic behavior and serious legal risk underneath. In my follow-up conversation with Fractional General Counsel and Attorney Tim Papuga, we discuss: 

• Defining workplace culture as lived values 
• Reading culture quickly through respect, trust, and accountability 
• Separating a single bad actor from a leadership and culture failure 
• Understanding why policies and handbooks fail without real enforcement 
• Clarifying the at-will employment myth and how it fuels bad decisions 
• Why conducting workplace investigations is important 
• Choosing internal vs external investigators based on size, power dynamics, and credibility