Betsy Sutter, Chief People Officer, VMware sits down with Lisa Martin for VMware's Women Transforming Technology event. #wt2sv #vmware #womenintech https://siliconangle.com/2020/05/18/empathy-becomes-an-unexpected-essential-for-pandemic-business-survival-wt2sv/ Will we ever go back to how we worked before COVID-19? The success of the virtual conference had Sutter wondering if the new way of connecting wasn’t an improvement on the physical. “The diversity, the eclectic-ness of the women that were able to join from around the world … it just up-leveled everything,” she said. As VMware’s Chief People Officer, Sutter has her finger on the pulse of the company’s workforce. “Yesterday alone, I think I did six town halls and two ask-me-anything’s just to make sure we know what’s on top of people’s minds, what’s important to them,” she said. And the response to working remotely has been overwhelmingly positive. “Over 70% said they felt, if not the same amount of connection, more connection with each other working in a distributed fashion,” Sutter said. “COVID-19’s brought that to life … we’re going to work in a new way. It’s a new business model.”