Leading TeamsVirtually

It contributes to your aura of authority and power. You know, the sight of your luxury car parked in your personalised spot. The biggest office with the best fittings. Juniors scurrying around to bring your tea in the fancy coffee mug. How will people know I am the boss online? How will they feel me when they are working remotely?”

This question is used with consent and on condition of anonymity, and I use it anecdotally because I have already responded directly to the colleague. But yes, we are adjusting to so many losses in our various levels of work in the organisation aren’t we. Visibility, status and a sense of power are some of the ‘resources’ and ‘rewards’ that other colleagues feel diminish as we yield to the equalising platform of digitised workstations.