CHAPTER 28
Ideas for Helping Remote Colleagues Bond
by Kuty Shalev
Research consistently shows that remote employees tend to feel excluded from the company culture. They report feeling as if they are not treated equally and often fear that their colleagues are working against them. When a problem arises, nearly half of remote workers let it fester for weeks or more.
To improve workplace integration, my company experimented with several ways to bring our distributed workers together, including virtual coffees, book clubs, and executive-led webinars focused on values. Some of these efforts revved up the team temporarily, but they didn’t solve the culture problems that are inherent to having a large remote workforce.
We realized that we needed to ...
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