VitalSmarts interviewed 1,100 professionals a few years ago and concluded that home office workers felt rejected and excluded. In 2017, Gallup, an independent marketing research company, conducted a study that reaffirmed this finding: 85% of workers “were not engaged or were disconnected” and about 43% of respondents reported working remotely at some point in the week or at some project.
The “State of Remote Work 2019” report, carried out by Buffer, was concerned with analyzing the greatest difficulties of remote work. The three main responses were:
Disconnect after work (22%), Loneliness (19%) and difficulty in alignment (17%). We can realize that the three biggest problems are related to engagement and productivity.