Remote Work, Culture at Risk: Why Companies Need Modern Strategies to Build Employee Relationships

An April 2020 Gallup poll found that 62% of Americans are working remotely vs. 31% the same year prior. 1 While remote work creates many immediate benefits like lower costs for companies and more control over time for employees, it also creates significant new challenges due to fewer in-person interactions. If left unresolved, these problems have the potential to erode employee trust, company culture, and performance.

And note, our discussion of remote work is intended to reflect all of its iterations – from organizations that have fully transitioned away from physical offices to those where partial remote work and increased flexibility have become set policy as a result of the pandemic. Remote work in any form will carry the impacts we’re discussing here.