When I started to research the emotions surrounding the experience of remote work—and what could possibly connect us across vast distances—I was so intrigued by the connective power of “companionate love.” The late management scholar Sigal Barsade, who taught me at the Yale School of Management and later went on to teach at the Wharton School, and her colleague, George Mason University assistant professor of management Olivia “Mandy” O’Neill, established in their research the importance of “companionate love” at work. They developed a methodology to measure this kind of love in the workplace and surveyed over 3,000 people in seven different industries including pharmaceuticals and engineering.