75% Of FAANG Professionals Feel Less Connected To Their Coworkers

Nine months into pandemic-induced telework, employees’ priorities are changing.

Company culture seems to matter as much — if not more — than it used to. 

In fact, on Blind,  the largest anonymous professional community with 4.1M users from big tech, unicorns, and startups, we learned that 45% of professionals say company culture has mattered more to them since work from home began. 

That’s a seismic shift in the way Americans think about work — and it underscores the need for managers and leaders to pay close attention to culture during the pandemic and beyond. Of the nearly 2,400 surveyed professionals, 68% say they currently feel disengaged at work. 

This same survey revealed that 66% of U.S. professionals feel less connected to their coworkers than they did when in office.

Here are the exact questions from Blind’s survey:

1. Do you feel disengaged at work?
2. Throughout work from home, company culture has
3. Throughout work from home, you have felt:

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Here are some more interesting key learnings:

• The finance industry (71%) is marginally more disengaged at work than the tech industry (69%)
• 70% of FAANG professionals feel disengaged at work
• 71% of Netflix professionals say company culture has mattered more to them since WFH began, significantly higher than the FAANG average (42%)
• FAANG professionals feel less connected to their coworkers (75%) than the average tech professional (68%). 

Fostering a good work culture is especially important for firms that have undergone rounds of layoffs. Those events likely detracted from a professional’s sense of belonging at work. This sentiment is evidenced by 80% of Uber employees who feel disengaged at work, 12% higher than the average.