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We have apprentices and graduates who's development as been stagnated due to WFH.
There is more to the discussion than " I can do my work at home" senior staff have performance objectives to develop other staff (it's also in the job descriptions)
Grumpy_Git-
Imo this is the biggest genuine issue with wfh for business.
Very anecdotal, but I was taking to someone working at a big accountancy firm and they commented on how covid and post-covid grads were visibly behind when it came to being able to bring them into client facing meetings.
However, this goes back to the point about taking an intelligent approach.
My last role was a product owner. Only the CPOs had what I would call real line management responsibility. And their reports were spread across a min of 2 counties and no junior staff. Users, stakeholders and tech teams spread across different countries, different offices within countries and different floors within offices.
So if you're a partner in a law firm, yes you need to be present with junior staff. In my case, it was close to irrelevant.
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We have apprentices and graduates who's development as been stagnated due to WFH
And we (developers) have some who have come through strongly. Before COVID I'm sure there were at least some who found the office an intimidating place who were held back by that environment as well.
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christianSpaceman
It seems like such an odd one for people to get into arguments over too. Some people prefer working in the office, some people from home, some like a bit of both. So, why not just let the workers choose and everyone wins?
My last place had a 2 day in office mandate after lockdowns lifted. Few people came in more than 2 days. So any time you were having a meeting, it was a bunch of people in a meeting room and a bunch on Zoom. The worst of both worlds!
And of course they were making a big thing about their green credentials, while unnecessarily asking people to commute into the office when they'd just spent the past 2 years doing the same job from home.
My current workplace thankfully is pretty flexible that way, some people are fully remote, some are in the office a few days a week. Nobody really cares as long as the work gets done. Thankfully the owners seem to be mature enough to not care about the office theatrics around appearing busy.