How leaders can create spaces that nurture connection

Research shows that social isolation was the top challenge for those working from home.

If your staff returns to the office, consider the following.

• Talk. Have a return-to-office plan and keep talking about it. When there is clarity about the strategy and plan, employees have 36% more pleasant feelings about being back in the office.
• Organize schedules by key moments, not by days of the week. Plan in-office days when your team will most benefit from a shared reality.
• Design office spaces for different ways of interacting.
• Have agenda-free social interactions.

Research can pinpoint exactly what is happening in our brains when we connect over screens.

• Connecting with others over video conferencing requires our brains to work harder to accommodate the millisecond delay in sound. 
• At the same time, we have multiple ey...