About this block

Culture Values Split describes a normal Tuesday instead of a poster. The left column frames culture as working agreements, written, versioned, enforced by tooling, in a heading and two paragraphs. The right column lists four numbered agreements in ruled rows, each a practice with its enforcement mechanism: meeting free Wednesdays protected by calendar tooling, support rotations including founders.

The agreements are one array of title and text. The mechanism clause is what separates this from a values wall, each line should say how the agreement survives a busy quarter. Four agreements is the right count, candidates remember four, and a culture with twelve rules has none.

When to use

Reach for this block on careers pages between the roles and the benefits, where candidates ask the unaskable question: what is it like day to day. It is the careers counterpart of the about page principles-numbered, aimed at employees rather than customers. Skip any agreement you would not defend in an exit interview, candidates compare this page with reviews sites in a second tab.

A natural flow around it on a Marketing Pro page:

Before

• Open roles bringing candidates with a reason to evaluate culture

After

• Employee quotes corroborating the agreements in other voices
• Benefits finishing with the practical layer

What you can display

One strong use is four enforced working agreements. Other sets:

• Engineering culture. Code review norms, on call humanity, and deploy cadence as agreements with tooling.
• Distributed norms. Core hours, response expectations, and documentation defaults for remote teams.
• Studio practice. Critique format, client boundaries, and craft time for agencies and studios.

Tip: pair every agreement with its enforcement, a rule without a mechanism is a wish, and candidates can tell.