How is your organization handling remote work these days?

Our reader poll today asks: How is your organization handling remote work these days?

• Everyone is free to work fully remote as they desire 10.77%
• People are free to work remotely with explicit permission 19.24%
• Only select people can work remotely because of their job responsibilities 24.61%
• Everyone is encouraged to work from the office 22.05%
• Everyone is required to work from the office 23.33%

Back to the Office. The majority of you report that most employees are encouraged or required to work from office with few exceptions (69% of total fall in these categories). If you’re back in the office, make the most of it. Don’t hide out at your desk. Deliberately make an effort to meet with others, network, and collaborate. While I’m not advocating meetings for the sake of meeting, I am encouraging you to work with others when the occasion calls for it. Resist the urge to fall into remote behaviors when you’re somewhere in person. You can forge stronger interpersonal connections, reduce the possibility of misunderstandings that can occur via video/email/text, and feel more connected to your work. For those of you still working remotely, consider going into the office occasionally for these collaborative reasons. If the majority of your organization is in person, you risk being left out, forgotten, or left behind if no one ever sees you in person. Again, connect in person deliberately and for specific reasons but do make the effort to connect.

– Mike Figliuolo at thoughtLEADERS, LLC

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These results were originally a SmartPulse poll in SmartBrief on Leadership which tracks feedback from more than 240,000 business leaders. Get smarter on leadership and sign up for the SmartBrief on Leadership e-newsletter.