Since the start of the decade, we’ve done a collective 180° when it comes to where, when, and how we work. In a recent LinkedIn poll of approximately 800 workers, 41% of respondents said they want to work remote permanently, while just 4% said they’d prefer to go back to a fully in-office workplace. And get this: 82% of workers in a related survey said they’d be absolutely fine working for a company that has no physical office.

According to a new Pew Research Center survey, 64% of those who are now working from home at least some of the time but who rarely or never did before say it’s easier now to balance work with personal life — a big win. But, 60% also say they feel less connected to their co-workers.

This casualty of never meeting in person, be it for town halls, team celebrations, or purpose-driven events, is one of the main drivers of The Great Resignation and The Great Reprioritization. Weaker connections make it easier for people to leave their jobs. And often, employees are opting for organizations that are taking the lead in reimagining communications, connection, and workplace culture from anywhere in the world.

In a PwC Pulse Survey, 48% of CFOs cited loss of #companyculture as a key #hybridwork concern.

From The Great Resignation to The Great Refactoring

In the report, Employee Experience - Moving to a Decisive New Model for the Future of Work, Constellation Research VP and Principal Analyst Dion Hinchcliffe says today’s workplace evolution as part of what Constellation calls The Great Refactoring presents “an unprecedented opportunity for organizations to rethink the employee experience” with an “embarrassment of riches at hand to address EX in a more focused and dynamic way.

“Not only can they drill down on which employees require more and varied types of support,” says Hinchcliffe, “but they also can personalize the actions that create widely shared and much-needed feelings of well-being and cohesion across the workforce. This path leads directly to more connected, effective, engaged workers who can create an unbeatable competitive advantage for the organization,” says Hinchcliffe.

Want to learn more about how today’s technology can get this done? Download the full Constellation Research report here or check out 8x8’s 2022 Business Communications Trends.