Many companies imagine that forcing people to return to the office will encourage connections between colleaguesand, as a result, strengthen the sense of belonging, collaboration, innovation, productivity and engagement.
On paper, this is understandable and debatable, but in practice, just as I recently said that telecommuting is not the cause of loneliness but rather the indicator of it (What the loneliness of some remote workers really tells us), being in the office doesn't guarantee anything either.
Connected out of the office, alone in the office
I won't dwell on what I said in the above-mentioned...
Many companies imagine that forcing people to return to the office will encourage connections between colleaguesand, as a result, strengthen the sense of belonging, collaboration,...
In his opening Keynote at the latest HR Tech World conference in London, Ken Robinson talked about creativity and innovation in the enterprise. This...
A couple of weeks ago Anthony Poncier said that despite of appearances, more and more social business and enterprise social networks projects were not...
Summary : gathering people and bringing them closer does not often increase performance. If it's a good way to spur creativity, exchange, share points...
Summary : strengthening ties between employees, increasing the membership feeling, learning to collaborate out of silos are challenges organizations try to meet with limited...