Why are disengaged employees disengaged?

The poor relationship between workers and their immediate supervisors is the key to employee disengagement, today.

Last year, when working on the Work Media Roadmap report, I came up with a characterization of the way we work today, which I called the 3D Workforce: Distributed, Decentralized, and Discontinuous.

Work today is being uprooted:

Workers today are increasingly mobile, and their expectation is that they can and must work wherever they are. Our work can be pe…