The Power of Virtual Culture

5 May 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief presentation, the speaker reflects on the 2021‑2022 period dubbed the “great resignation,” noting that popular narratives blamed Millennials or Gen Z for the unprecedented wave of employee departures. He argues that the true driver was the massive shift to virtual work, which left organizational culture, community, and interpersonal chemistry behind. Consequently, leaders who wish to retain talent must deliberately create and nurture a virtual culture, a challenge he asserts is solvable.

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when you look at like 2021 and 2022, we coined this the year of the great resignation, right? Where more than historically anyone had ever left companies and people look back at that and they go, oh, those millennials or those Gen Z or whatever they wanted to place the blame on. The truth was that we had moved a lot of people into a virtual world and we had left culture and community and chemistry behind. And as a leader today, you want to retain at a high level, you better solve for creating a virtual culture, and you can do it.