The Power of Virtual Culture

28 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker reflects on the 2021‑2022 period dubbed the "year of the great resignation," when unprecedented numbers of employees left their jobs. While popular narratives blamed Millennials or Gen Z, the speaker argues the true driver was the massive shift to virtual work that stripped away culture, community, and interpersonal chemistry. The core message is a call to leaders: to retain talent at high levels, they must intentionally create and nurture a virtual culture, and the speaker affirms that this is achievable.

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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.