Organizing requires some degree of organizational control, and organizational control requires some amount of information, via monitoring. Examining how we interpret information highlights the importance of context. However, not all environments provide equal access to information and context; for example, remote work reduces the ability to monitor work via observation and in doing do, reduces context awareness. Building on this, I propose that organizational environments can be understood as more or less context-providing, and organizational controls can be understood as more or less context-dependent. Recognizing the need to match highly-context-dependent controls with context-providing environments (and low-context controls with low-context environments) presents a previous unconsidered explanation for why organizational controls do not function equally well in all organizational environments, and can provide guidance for managers when considering which organizational control mechanisms will be appropriate in a given setting.