[gretch]

One aspect I rarely see discussed on these messages boards, but one of critical importance, is the role that in-office has on developing new employees over time.

Imagine you are a new grad who just got hired but all the senior employees all work remote. How do you learn the trade? It’s much harder to become established.

However senior employees who were established already pre covid don’t experience this problem.

If you are the leader of the company, you realize that one day all of these senior ppl will retire one day and the people who are juniors today will be the main work force. Will they be just as good in this remote-first environment?

Maybe yes, maybe no, either way it’s a huge unknown and that means big risk.

[dowager_dan99]

My last company was fully remote and went through an expansion of hiring a lot of jrs and co-ops. They had a pretty well developed onboarding & mentoring process but it was still very hard. In the end I saw the same people be successful in a remote-first environment as I suspect would have been successful in-office. I believe it was harder on the seniors and other mentors though.