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Re:I hope work from home continues by parzivalm on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @11:42AM (#26713246)
I agree that this seems to be an issue for new hires that I've seen.

But I think the blame for this lies in management and the seniors on the team. If a fresh out of college grad feels hesitant to ping a coworker then that coworker is doing something wrong. I'm seeing a lot of companies and teams seem to shift this blame to the WFH situation, where really it is a failure of the team to not integrate and work well together in a shifting situation.

Plenty of companies that are remote first have no issue mentoring junior engineers, so I don't see what the excuse is for companies that are not.

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Re:I hope work from home continues by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @11:46AM (#26713298)
> the blame for this lies in management and the seniors on the team

It absolutely does. Point is a lot of industries never formalized training, instead relying on osmosis across teams. That creates a--hopefully temporary--disadvantage for new hires. Again, in some fields.

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Re:I hope work from home continues by richardwhiuk on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @12:47PM (#26714169)
Management are fixing it - they are requiring everyone to go back to the office.
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