09/10/2025

Build Vital Workplace Bonds

Recognize the surprising power of ‘quiet connecting’

Work is filled with contradictions and disruptions these days, and the uncertainty can make the workplace feel like a constant emergency. As a result, people are stressed, pessimistic and pulling back from their organizations—but they're not disconnecting from each other.

Our new research shows that, even under tremendous pressure, employees are “quiet connecting:" helping each other regardless of what’s happening at the company level.

Organizations would do well to recognize and strengthen these organic bonds because they can serve as a powerful counterforce to widespread employee disengagement.

Please select this link to read the complete article from Fast Company.