After more than a year of remote work, some employers have begun ushering employees back into the office and more plan to do so in the coming months — at times against the wishes of employees themselves, some who would rather quit than return to their desks.

Today’s thinking about remote work and virtual teams returning to the office is full of wrong-headedness and academic research that looks at failed use cases rather than best practice. 

Through our research and experience coaching executive teams, LHH and Ferrazzi Greenlight have identified four characteristics of resilient teams: candor, resourcefulness, compassion, humility.