What Mentorship Looks Like In The Disconnected Era
HR Dive, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
Flexible, informal mentorship programs outperform rigid structures in today's hybrid, disconnected workplace.
Jen A. Miller reports that modern mentorship programs succeed by embracing flexibility rather than rigid structure, since traditional formal mentorship often becomes 'a box-checking exercise.'
Achievers' Hannah Yardley notes cross-generational mentorships allow bidirectional knowledge flow, while Group PMX's hybrid model requires only monthly meetings to accommodate remote and in-person preferences.
Employees with strong peer connections are 4.7 times more likely to feel engaged, and only 21% of employees report being able to access the people they need to be productive, underscoring the need for such programs.