How do passive skills work exactly?

[Mechaclank]

Like for example: 'Motivational Leader' says that it gives +%25 player movement speed. Does it activate when your pal is in your party or do you have to call it out? Does it stack with other pals in the same party? I can't tell the difference.

[Szorrin]

It's not movement speed, it's work speed. Passive skills that affect the player work if the Pal is in your party and the effects do stack.

[MooCows]

It depends on the passive. Motivational Leader seems like it may be broken (or it's work speed.. I never do work in the game myself, so who knew?).

Vanguard and Stronghold Strategist seem to work, and are applied whether the Pal in question is called out or not. Just needs to be in your party.

[Teal V2]

As far as I experienced, there are 2 types.
One which states "while in party" and one which does not have this in the description.

The one you say should be active only when the pal is summoned.
There is another kind of pal which raises damage of electric type WHILE in party. So you can bring it in your team just to raise the damage of your other pals and actually never summon it if you don't want to.

[Szorrin]

Originally posted by MooCows:

It depends on the passive. Motivational Leader seems like it may be broken (or it's work speed.. I never do work in the game myself, so who knew?).

Vanguard and Stronghold Strategist seem to work, and are applied whether the Pal in question is called out or not. Just needs to be in your party.

As I said, it's work speed. You can see the increase to your work speed stat.