In my line of work, the office workers who interface with the people working on site are the ones with fat ass fucking paychecks. And as a result, it’s been harder to foster solidarity between them and the low-paid office workers, who are much more numerous. If anything, it should be the opposite, but because we’re under different vice presidents, that communication has designated channels which involve us reporting to our superiors (but for some reason the communication is not happening VP-to-VP, which defeats the purpose of the hierarchy argument). Literally, our communication would have primarily been happening through public channels, so it’s not like they couldn’t have monitored them. But I’m pretty sure what it is is that they don’t want us knowing each other and commiserating and they want to be able to blame the opposite group for their own managerial fuck ups when something goes wrong.