Sophia Smith, High Style Life, https://highstylife.com/ provides our guest blog, Beyond the Office Walls: The Rising Influence of the Digital Employee Experience Market. She is a Beauty & Style blogger and Graphic editor at @highstylife. Sophia Smith is a digital marketing specialist, graphic & UX designer, and content creator. She specialized in helping clients, particularly small businesses and startups, grow their brands in today’s fast-changing market.

The sudden transition to remote work, expedited by the pandemic, surprised us. Our attempts to adapt could have been better initially as we grappled with unfamiliar technologies and a radically altered work environment. Morale plummeted, productivity nosedived, and for a moment, it felt as though our shared vision was fading into obscurity.