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Are you about to lose someone you can't afford to?
early signs someone is disengaged and how to address it before it's too late.
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👋 Welcome back to All Things Remote: weekly tips for building a better remote team.
Losing a good person is expensive.
The harder truth is that most of the time, the signs were there, they just went unnoticed or unaddressed.
In today's send:
✅ The early signs someone is disengaging (remotely, they're easy to miss)
✅ Why it happens and why it's rarely just about the work
✅ How to have the conversation before it becomes a resignation
But first…
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Why remote makes this harder
In an office, disengagement has physical tells.
Someone goes quiet in meetings.
They stop joining for lunch.
They are not putting in as much effort as they used to and people around them notice.
Remotely, all of that is almost invisible.
Someone can be checked out for weeks before it fully shows up…
By the time it surfaces, in their work, in a 1:1, or even worse, in a resignation, they've usually been gone mentally for a while - and theres no going back.
The early signs to watch for…