Losing a shared office space has wide-ranging effects on team dynamics that are just now starting to come into full view. In distributed work, leaders must intentionally design for cohesion — the unified feeling of togetherness critical for productivity, collaboration, and alignment around common goals.

In this candid conversation, Mollie Rosen will speak with Joey Camire and Osei Kwakye of strategy and design consultancy Sylvain Labs, and contributing authors for the untraditional business intelligence platform Progress Report. They’ll discuss how office environment and culture have historically been used as a crutch, and how to build up alternative distributed equivalents in this time to make up for that loss.

4A’s members can download free the Sylvain Labs report Distributed, Not Divided: The Urgency In Building Cohesion at Work with the code WHIMSY.