Culture isn't a perk, it's what holds a company together. Strong relationships with colleagues make any work more satisfying, even the hard or boring parts. That's why people stay.
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Culture isn't a nice-to-have. It's the infrastructure that holds an organization together. And I don't think I've ever heard something as true in work. The thread, those red threads, it's what holds stuff together, right?
100%. 100%. I think it is. It's when you think about, even if you think about yourself and any time you've worked anywhere, the difference it makes when you have made connections within the workplace. On how you enjoy the work that you're doing. You can't measure it, but you can feel it. And I do think, like, the places where I know for myself, in terms of my own experience of work, where I had really good connections with people, I enjoyed the work no matter what the work was. And that's the point, I think, is that we all have to do work. Work, you know, sometimes is great, sometimes is tricky, sometimes is boring, you know. But when you have those connections in work it changes that for you. So I think, yeah, for me, connection in the workplace is just so important. So I think this research just is coming at such a timely time, and I think we're talking a lot about connection at the moment because people are missing it, and that's, that's just the bottom line.