This symposium showcases current research on workplace relationships – including focus on connection, disconnection, and dynamic transitions between the two – in order to improve our understanding of how workers experience and bridge the space in between themselves and others at work. The four papers presented (1) identify a novel phenomenon called “disrupted workplace socializing,” which includes changes in the friendly social interactions that occur among coworkers in reaction to abrupt changes to how, when or where work is conducted; (2) explore how workers maintain and create personalized co-worker relationships following a transition to virtual work; (3) discuss the dynamics and outcomes of relational challenges experienced by gig workers; and (4) examine how workers incorporate loneliness into their self-narratives, and how the ways in which they do so impact how they inhabit their work roles and relate to their history and to other people at work. Bridging the Space Between Us: Exploring Connection and Disconnection in Workplace Relationships Presenter: Jennifer Petriglieri; INSEAD Presenter: Elizabeth Sheprow; Harvard Business School