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You Can’t Fake Belonging
Remote work doesn’t kill belonging. Indifferent leadership does. The office never created belonging on its own, it just made it easier to do the things that create belonging: casual conversations, shared meals, visible recognition, the spontaneous moments of human contact that accumulate into trust. If you move to remote or hybrid and don’t deliberately recreate those conditions, you haven’t gained flexibility. You’ve just moved the loneliness into people’s homes.