Is Humour a Part of the Workplace?

British businesses, I think, humour appears to be part of the workplace. That level of earnestness and lack of cynicism is a uniquely American thing. But even in our own company, like we would, at Newsweek, we'd have these meetings where they just laid off half the staff,. The boss would get up and say, look, things are great. You know, we did just cut half the staff with, there might be another cut, but it won't be more than 15%. So yeah, it was amazing in that regard. Really amazing.