The End of Trust

Perhaps the most important commodity that is required in the digital transformation is trust. And it seems to be in remarkably short supply!

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/12/trust-recession-economy/620522/

But trust is less quantifiable than other forms of capital. Its decline is vaguely felt before it’s plainly seen. As companies have gone virtual during the coronavirus pandemic, supervisors wonder whether their remote workers are in fact working. In March 2020, trust levels were fairly high. By May, they had slipped. By October—about seven months into the pandemic—the employees’ degree of confidence in one another was down substantially.