![]() That means that many employees are interacting with far fewer co-workers than at their desks.Ī 2021 Microsoft study of its own staff showed switching to remote work meant “employees didn’t just change who they worked with, but also how they worked with them”. More than two years since the start of the health crisis, fewer than 30% of knowledge workers around the world are working from the office every day. Yet finding ways to restore these post-pandemic work communities may be key to ongoing wellbeing at work. Solving the problem is difficult – after all, Slacking or Zooming a co-worker you don’t know well, for no work-related reason, could feel decidedly odd. It’s clear this impacts workers research shows many remote employees feel less connected to their teams and companies. Colleagues who used to be small – but important – parts of workers’ office lives are now effectively ghosts. For many, there is no work-related reason to seek out colleagues who aren’t connected to their roles and workloads, and many people’s work worlds have shrunk – no more ‘just because’ chats to the woman in IT or guy in accounts. Now, employees work via virtual channels, in a much more siloed manner: they interact with the people they share tasks with. The switch to remote work has changed that. Even if people didn’t directly work together or weren’t on the same team, employees had at least some colleagues to exchange a few casual words with throughout the workday. ![]() ![]() Chats in the coffee room, communal birthday cakes or a shared walk to the car park at the end of the day provided brief moments to connect outside daily tasks. ![]() The rituals of office work used to mean communication with colleagues was a given. ![]()
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