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When photographing a company picnic an employee shared that she hadn’t planned to stay with the company and had seriously considered leaving.

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Me: “What made you stay?”

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Employee: “They found a new role for me that I was able to thrive in.”

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Two sentences that said so much about the company. I never would have heard them without the access the camera gave me — showing up, paying attention, and asking one more question.

“I knew WorkLife Studios was the only one who could help our company articulate the best version of itself. We are taking multiple brands with incredibly dated websites full of stock photography and catch phrases and trying to transform them into one cohesive brand with a compelling story.

It’s been hard for me to try and imagine how it will all come to fruition — I have so many thoughts in my head about how I hope it will go, but they are tangled, jumbled, and abstract. Our company is a family-owned company with a rich history. I want to honor it, to do it justice. The work is important, and I’ve told Sarah multiple times, ‘I just want to get it right.’”

I’m not worried about AI taking my job. I’m focused on developing connection while the world seems dead set on destroying it. When the kids in this photo grow up, and all they know is how to emotionally regulate in front of a screen, someone is going to need to (re)teach them how to live with humans. How to connect. WorkLife Studios plans to be part of that solution.