{"id":8842,"date":"2025-10-06T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologueindustriel.com\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=8842"},"modified":"2025-10-06T15:13:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T15:13:05","slug":"can-you-trust-a-manager-you-never-see","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/psychologueindustriel.com\/en\/blog\/can-you-trust-a-manager-you-never-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you trust a manager you never see?"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":8841,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-8842","blog","type-blog","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"content":"<article class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]\" dir=\"auto\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-turn-id=\"request-WEB:8ac4f666-158b-43cf-9cca-4bb05b7760d9-1\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-4\" data-scroll-anchor=\"true\" data-turn=\"assistant\">\r\n<div class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-10 [--thread-content-margin:--spacing(4)] thread-sm:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(6)] thread-lg:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(16)] px-(--thread-content-margin)\">\r\n<div class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] thread-lg:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\" tabindex=\"-1\">\r\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col grow\">\r\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"d56db2f1-fd72-4f1f-a43d-f2c3bd13c1ae\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5\">\r\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[1px]\">\r\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full break-words light markdown-new-styling\">\r\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"456\">With the rapid rise of remote work, many researchers have examined how this shift affects employee performance \u2014 but far fewer have looked at its impact on managers themselves. An article published in <em data-start=\"242\" data-end=\"264\">Personnel Psychology<\/em> by Timothy Golden and Michael Ford explores a rarely asked question: do employees trust their supervisor as much when that person works remotely? And if not, what drives that loss of trust?<\/p>\r\n<p data-start=\"458\" data-end=\"1187\">To answer this, the authors conducted three studies, including one in a large U.S. company with over 100 managers and 300 employees. They focused on <em data-start=\"607\" data-end=\"624\">affective trust<\/em> \u2014 the kind based on personal connection and the intuitive sense that someone is reliable. Their findings show that the more a manager works remotely, the more employees tend to feel psychological distance and to doubt their manager\u2019s intentions. Even when the manager is competent, the lack of concrete interactions makes their actions seem more abstract \u2014 and therefore, more ambiguous. The more distant someone appears, the easier it becomes to see them in simplified terms, stripped of nuance or context. And in human relationships, that rarely helps trust.<\/p>\r\n<p data-start=\"1189\" data-end=\"1557\">The study also found that monitoring makes things worse. A manager who works remotely <em data-start=\"1275\" data-end=\"1280\">and<\/em> closely supervises their employees \u2014 through frequent check-ins or a suspicious tone, for instance \u2014 risks eroding trust even further. Without emotional or contextual cues to soften these behaviours, employees are more likely to interpret them as controlling or distrustful.<\/p>\r\n<p data-start=\"1559\" data-end=\"1928\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Practically speaking, these findings call for caution in hybrid models where managers are seldom present. Relationship quality depends not only on deliverables or virtual meetings, but on genuine human interactions that foster affective trust. 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