Wait, I Am Supposed To Be “Connected” To The “Mission” Of My Company?

More shots across the bow in the work-culture wars and the never-ending WFH vs. hybrid vs. on-site discussion.

I guess if you’re going to discuss The Wall Street Journal, you need to begin by saying that it’s conservative-minded legacy business media with a long interest in propping up the managerial class and the ownership class, so since the beginning of COVID, it’s been a very staunch advocate for “the way we were,” i.e. everyone needs to be in neat little rows in the office.

As such, when they write articles summarizing new research from Gallup, as they do here —

The Growing Disconnect Between Remote Workers and Their Companies

— they tend to make it a story about how remote work is failing us all. To wit:

In a new Gallup survey, the share of remote workers who said they felt a connection to the purpose of their organizations fell to 28% from 32% in 2022 — the lowest level…