I work at a multi national now and I see upper management do this but I or anyone else I work with never had to do this, also when I worked at a national (only in US and canada) company that employed mostly older folk and has a "mom and pop shop" kind of culture I never had to see this at all.

Only companies that have a lot of HR,legal and management people that were indoctrinated with this stuff in college seem to have this cultural component.