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We're one quarter into 2026. Across the country, thousands of organizations are working to solve problems most big institutions haven't been able to figure out. Progress is coming from the bottom up. Here's proof. 🧵
Stand Together
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Stand Together
@StandTogether
Stand Together is a philanthropic community driving solutions on dozens of issues, including education, health care, and bridging partisan divides.
- Replying to @StandTogether"The future of work isn't less work — it's making work more human." — Tracy Brower, PhD #FutureOfWork #Leadership
- Replying to @StandTogetherThe fix isn't a pizza party. The companies getting ahead are building connection into the flow of work itself. Human-ology paired a remote-first culture with consistent check-ins and in-person time. The result was double-digit growth and stronger margins.
- Replying to @StandTogetherThe cost is concrete. For every lonely employee, a company loses an estimated $13,300 a year in productivity, attrition, and absenteeism. Workers who feel a sense of belonging are more likely to stay, give extra effort, and bring new ideas.
- Replying to @StandTogether"Burnout is occurring because work no longer feels human. We feel distanced from the impact of our work and from other people." — Tracy Brower, PhD, VP of Workplace Insights, @Steelcase
- Replying to @StandTogetherBurnout is usually blamed on long hours. But Brower says the real driver is that work has stopped feeling human. People feel distanced from the impact of their work and from each other. In the pursuit of efficiency, we stripped out the interpersonal elements that give work
- Loneliness costs companies $13,300 per employee. Sociologist Dr. @TracyBrower10 told Stand Together why human connection has become a business imperative. 🧵
- Replying to @StandTogether and @TracyBrower108Burnout is usually blamed on long hours. But Brower says the real driver is that work has stopped feeling human. People feel distanced from the impact of their work and from each other. In the pursuit of efficiency, we stripped out the interpersonal elements that give work
- Replying to @StandTogether @TEKsystems and @PerScholas"There needs to be a shift from role-based hiring to skills-based hiring and from traditional ways of thinking to nontraditional ways of thinking." — John Lullen, @TEKsystems
- Replying to @StandTogether @TEKsystems and @PerScholasThe results: 85% of PerScholas learners graduate. 80% of graduates move into employment, most within 90 days. TEKsystems has hired more than 1,500 graduates through the partnership.
- Replying to @StandTogether @TEKsystems and @PerScholas@PerScholas builds training programs with the companies that will hire graduates. @TEKsystems co-designed the curriculum and committed to hiring from the pipeline. When employers stopped screening for credentials, the talent they said didn't exist started showing up.
- Replying to @StandTogether @TEKsystems and @PerScholas"One of the things that I think is the classic faulty signal is degree requirements." — Caitlyn Brazill, President, @PerScholas
- Replying to @StandTogether @TEKsystems and @PerScholasJohn Lullen, @TEKsystems: companies say they can't find talent, but the hiring systems they're using were never built to find it. "There's a war for talent, but a lot of that is predicated on the school of thought that you need a degree."
