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The Great Detachment: Why Your Employees Are Disengaged And What To Do About It

May 5, 2025

Talent

The Great Detachment: Why Your Employees Are Disengaged And What To Do About It

May 5, 2025

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“The Great Detachment” is the label business experts are giving to the widespread dissatisfaction in today's workplaces. It reflects a growing number of employees who feel disconnected from their jobs and the organizations they work for.

We've known for a while that happy, engaged employees lead to better business results, but the old ways of boosting engagement just aren't working anymore. Now that remote and hybrid work has become so common, it's important for business leaders to come up with a fresh way of doing things; some people are calling it “Workplace Culture 2.0.” This means finding new ways to help employees once again feel connected to their work, their teammates and what the company is really trying to achieve with them in the bigger picture.

Beyond One-Size-Fits-All

In traditional office settings, engagement initiatives relied on centralized events and one-size-fits-all policies. Distributed teams, however, need a different approach. A key lesson? Micromanagement kills motivation. In my experience, high-performing organizations grant employees autonomy to set schedules, define priorities and own their results. This trust is crucial when colleagues rarely share the same room.

Yet autonomy alone is not enough. According to Gallup, roughly 40% of employees say their company’s mission or purpose makes them feel their job is important. Workplaces that consistently connect day-to-day tasks to strategic goals can see engagement levels jump by double-digit percentage points. An effective way to achieve this might be quarterly cross-departmental projects or “impact rounds,” where individuals highlight how their work advances broader objectives. When employees are told “This is how what you do moves us forward,” loyalty and commitment will likely rise.

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“The Great Detachment” is the label business experts are giving to the widespread dissatisfaction in today's workplaces.
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