Event Overview
The WSJ recently wrote about how American remote employees are more isolated & disconnected than ever – in fact, 58% of American workers reporting being lonely in their jobs.
In this live round table event, 3 people & culture leaders debate why this is happening, and what you can do about it.
Audience Poll Results
🤔 Can meaningful team bonding happen remotely (yes/no)?
93% Yes
🤔 On a scale of 1-10 how connected do you feel to your organization?
On average a 6.3/10
🤔 On a scale of 1-10 how much do you think your company has sacrificed connection for productivity?
On average a 6.o/10
Quick Takeaways
- How has your company culture changed since the pandemic; how do you back solve for building a remote culture that is just as strong and engaged as the pre-office days?
- Inherently, being remote IS culture and you have to think of it that way.
- Flexibility to focus work around your life vs. life around work is the ultimate draw for many, but work connections and relationships are still CRITICAL and don’t come organically – you have to be incredibly intentional about it.
- Require a PTO minimum to ensure employee's health.
- Manager enablement is key to doing remote work well and connecting people and teams.
- Gathering employees around shared interested can be very successful.
2. How do you combat loneliness in your workplace and provide ways for employees to build closer ties with one another?
- Empower folks to get together.
- Talk about it (the loneliness) – be vulnerable as leaders and share your challenges with loneliness and practical ways you combat that.
- Create little micro moments that matter - from shared interests, to birthday celebrations, to holidays – there a lot to bring folks together and make them feel like they belong.
- Give people the tools to connect organically their own ways – shoutouts, slack channels, meet ups, incentives, etc. – this is more sustainable than you doing all of it all the time.
3. How do you combat excessive meeting fatigue?
- We are all inherently bad at remote work - we need to be much more intentional designing how we work remotely and then hold accountable. Use tools to help hold folks accountable
- Don’t play calendar tetris; don't live in 30-min increments – try front-loading meetings.
- We need to be building better connection, trust with each other.
- People don't understand how to work together remotely to make decisions - make that super clear to folks.
- Empower (love this word today) your employees to actually learn how others work.
An Actionable Guide: 9 Quick Ways to Deliver on Your Team's Culture & Employee Engagement Goals This Year
Coming off of these great conversations, we put together an actionable guide full of super quick ways you can make an impact in your remote/hybrid organization, click below to download 👇
That's a Wrap!
Thank you again to the audience and our wonderful panelists for an awesome event! If you're a people leader of a remote/hybrid team struggling to keep your team engaged, connected and motivated – find a time to chat with one of our culture experts today.
