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With coronavirus drastically changing the business landscape, communication between employers and employees has never been more important.

Utilising remote working resources such as Slack and Microsoft Teams has the potential to maintain a constant level of interaction, yet new data has revealed that this currently isn’t the case, and the resulting issue is deeply felt.

One in five (21%) UK workers have admitted that their senior management teams do not understand the general challenges that they regularly face. That’s according to new research conducted by Qualtrics, which surveyed over 500 UK employees about their views on workplace initiatives and the importance of worker communication.

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The research has also revealed that in the UK, a vast majority (84%) of those who believe their management does not understand the pressures they face are being surveyed just once a year or less. Essentially, this shows that bosses simply aren’t invested enough in the needs of their teams.