What Martin Scorsese Teaches us About Remote Work

Stewart Wolfe
3 min readJun 25, 2021

I have this theory that we’re missing mountains made of bits of information that we took for granted in the office. Some have called it water cooler conversation or hallway talk or spontaneous collaboration, but I think we’re missing something that’s more informative and harder to see.

I call them structural cues.

Structural cues are the tangible evidence of the organization’s design come to life in observable ways. Like what teams share floors in the office or who happens to be holding interviews right now in the…

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Stewart Wolfe

Corporate L&D pro and workplace tech junkie writing about people and performance in the weird world of work