Why do remote and hybrid teams need their own health check?

Remote and hybrid disengagement is 2 to 3 times harder to detect via surveys than in-office disengagement. The dynamics are different: async communication habits, timezone equity, isolation, proximity bias, and manager visibility all matter in ways they did not for co-located teams. A generic engagement survey misses these.

Does this require monitoring or surveillance software?

No. The assessment itself is a questionnaire, and the ClarityLift approach it describes is aggregate-only team-level analysis. It never identifies individuals, never reads individual messages, and requires a minimum team size of 10. Manager visibility does not mean manager surveillance.

What is a good score for a hybrid team?

Anything above 80 puts you in the Remote-Native band, which is where the healthiest distributed teams operate. Most hybrid teams land in the 40 to 79 range, where proximity bias and async friction are accumulating into retention risk that is not yet visible in survey data.