{"id":20416,"date":"2023-01-10T10:36:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T16:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/?p=20416"},"modified":"2023-01-10T10:36:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T16:36:43","slug":"company-culture-doesnt-come-from-a-monitor-how-to-create-a-connected-workforce-in-an-increasingly-virtual-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/company-culture-doesnt-come-from-a-monitor-how-to-create-a-connected-workforce-in-an-increasingly-virtual-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Company Culture Doesn\u2019t Come from a Monitor: How to Create a Connected Workforce in an Increasingly Virtual World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How important are in-person connections in an increasingly remote work environment? The short answer is \u201cvery,\u201d especially since there are a lot fewer of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Planview is on a mission to \u201cBuild the Future of Connected Work,\u201d \u2013 so I spend a lot of time thinking about the human aspects of connection. Not just the team-to-top, cross-functional, idea-to-impact dimensions of Connected Work but the person-to-person, individual connections that make our work more meaningful, insightful, and valuable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What led to today\u2019s largely hybrid \u2013 or remote \u2013 workforce was, of course, the global pandemic. It was, among other things, an unplanned social experiment \u2013 an unintentional but valid test of the viability of a fully remote workforce. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until the pandemic, the question of whether workers would and could be productive while working from home was largely hypothetical. But it quickly became a very real scenario on a much larger scale than anyone could have predicted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

We learned from those first months and then years that people are just as productive at home as in the office. In fact, a 2021 study by Owl Labs<\/a> found that only 1% of workers surveyed said they were less productive in a remote environment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What we also learned is that different work options can benefit both the employee and the employer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n