Source page: McKinsey & Company
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April 26, 2021 – When it comes to the future of remote work, communication goes hand in hand with productivity. Employees who felt included in detailed communications about what’s decided and what’s still uncertain were nearly five times more likely to report increased productivity.
To read the article, see “What employees are saying about the future of remote work,” April 1, 2021.
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Visual form
Single-panel two-series impact chart.
Layout / body structure
The chart places three workplace outcomes along the horizontal axis and plots two connected series across them. Reader moves left to right from feeling supported to feeling included to individual productivity while comparing the dark lower series with the blue upper series at each step.
What is being compared
It compares the impact of two types of communication on productivity, support, and inclusion: communicating post-COVID-19 vision versus communicating remote-relevant policies.
Measurement system
The values are shown as impact multiples on a vertical scale from 1x to 5x. Each outcome has one dark point for post-COVID-19 vision and one blue point for remote-relevant policies, with the lines and the shaded wedge between them showing the size of the difference.
Visible structure inside the graphic
The chart uses three aligned outcome columns and two simple trajectories across them. The blue series rises from just above 2x to 3x to nearly 5x, while the dark series climbs more modestly from a little above 1x to around 1.6x and then to just under 2x; the filled gray area between the lines makes the widening gap especially visible at productivity.
Main takeaway from the visual
Clear communication of remote-relevant policies is associated with much larger perceived benefits than communication of a general post-COVID-19 vision. The gap widens across all three outcomes and is largest at individual productivity, where the blue series sits far above the dark one.
Key standout values or extremes
The remote-relevant-policies series sits at about 2.1x for feeling supported, 3.0x for feeling included, and roughly 4.7x for individual productivity. The post-COVID-19-vision series is much lower at about 1.2x, 1.6x, and 1.9x respectively, making the productivity spread the most dramatic on the page.
Controls / sequence, when applicable
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