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It’s not onsite vs remote. It’s meaningful feedback vs crappy management.
Re: Dubious Data. It’s not just the collection method that draws questionable conclusions. It’s accepting headlines without digging deeper.
Gallup illustrated this in their own research, here. And then further, here.
If you skimmed the top level observations, you may have been satisfied with this:
“remote-ready employees in collaborative jobs who work on-site two to three days per week are more engaged and have higher wellbeing.”
See? Hybrid is the best. Get people onsite and everything will be fine.
Ok but why? Specifically. To Gallups credit, they answered that too:
“80% of employees who say they have received meaningful feedback in the past week are fully engaged -- regardless of how many days they worked in the office.”
Extrapolating: it’s not the physical proximity by itself. It’s that people are more likely to give meaningful feedback when you see them in person. When “out of sight out of mind” doesn’t kick in.
Before you worry about your office policy, maybe you should worry about your say-something-actually-meaningful-to-your-team policy.
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