I also work in a hospital, and everyone except the doctors is addressed by their first names, with one exception. One lady who works in the laundry and delivers our clean linens is called Miss Ethel by everyone. She’s about 120 years old, so I guess it’s just a respect thing.
The doctors are all Dr. Lastname.
One doctor has a 13 or 14-letter Indian name, and just introduces himself as Dr. Bhat, which is just a shortened version of his name.
First name: my entire 28 year career, first name, including CEOs.
I’ve had meetings with suppliers, up to and including the CEO level, and it’s also been first name.
In fact, thinking about my life in general, apart from teachers, I’ve never called anyone by anything other than their first name, apart from grandparents and maybe aunts and uncles.
I work in the mid-south location of a fairly large, international tech company. It’s all over the board.
My facility employs ~1500 people from the VP of operations, corporate down to the kitting department where a number of folks with learning disabilities work. There are people from many cultures. I have contact with roughly 2/3 of them.
Most of the American men, especially those from the area, call women in administrative positions and middle aged or older women Miss Firstname. Many of the women from the south do the same. Men of one’s parent’s generation tend to be called Mister Firstname (I always get a kick hearing someone called Mr. Ed).
People in upper management tend to be called Mr. / Ms. Lastname unless otherwise requested. Everyone else locally is called by the first name.
First name only everywhere I’ve worked since high school (I graduated in 1976). That includes very small companies, midsize (100+ people where I was a corporate officer), and large (like Cisco Systems, where I was pretty darned far down the corporate ladder).
First names and nicknames internally. In conferences and meetings people will be introduced with their full name. We’ve occasionally had too many Steves and they were referred to by just their last name. It’s getting more difficult as the company grows.
I’ve worked at two Fortune 500 consumer-products companies, a major advertising agency, and now a small market research company. It’s always been first-name basis, at every place I’ve worked, even when dealing with the CEO or the head of the agency.
First names only. I’m in Health and the boss in my department and if anyone referred to me as “Mr” I’d be looking over my shoulder to see if my dads ghost was behind me.
Behind my back i’m sure a few of them just refer to me as “that Prick”
I work in a school. It’s first names among adults. Ms./Mr. Firstname in front of the students, although the teachers in one program are Ms./Mr. Lastname. It can get a little confusing.
I work in an unprofessional environment, certainly we know each others first names, but I’m more likely to be addressed as ‘mami’, ‘honey’, or various nicknames.
Normally I work alone, at home. But from time to time, I do consultation at a major hospital. Everyone’s on a first-name basis, except for the doctors. They get Dr._____. But the doctors are on a first-name basis with each other and everyone else.
First names generally - shortened in the case of Stephens and Matthews, which we have two of each, One of the 2 Megans is a Meg, and one of the 3 Davids is a Dave.
Having a unique name seems to be the outlier in my office
Where I work, we use titles almost exclusively. Superiors are always <title><lastname>. Subordinates are typically <title><lastname> as well, except in training/mentoring environments.
honorific lastname for those (the majority) that I am on Sie terms with, firstname for those few I am on Du terms with (some long-standing colleagues whom I have closely worked with and who are not superiors of mine). I would feel very uncomfortable to be on first name terms with a superior - a boss cannot be a friend.