How Managers Can Help Remote Employees Feel Less Isolated

Now that more and more companies are allowing, encouraging or even mandating remote work, it’s critical to make sure their workforce doesn’t feel excessively isolated. In pre-COVID times, telework was gaining traction in certain industries, but the curve was relatively slow and most workplaces had no policies in place to regulate the usage of it. Even if some employees had adapted to it, most were still used to physically being at work with colleagues and their management team, at least some of the time. With the speed at which everything has drastically shifted, people can feel destabilized. However, there are concrete solutions to foster increased collaboration and inclusiveness, even from afar.