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Re:Apple employees criticize work-from-home policy in open l... by listless on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @02:20PM (#31251634)
Working remotely is career limiting. Period. I’m saying that as a remote worker. I would not recommend that you get into full time remote work until you’ve decided you are OK with no significant career advancement.
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Re:Apple employees criticize work-from-home policy in open l... by smeej on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @02:33PM (#31251794)
Trying to force my neuro-divergent brain to work in an office setting where I'm surrounded by noisy people (any people, really), lights that may flicker, and temperatures I can't control is going to limit my career a lot more than failing to have serendipitous conversations in a hallway.

What works for you may not be what works for everybody, and that's the point.

It could be that remote work would have limited your career advancement.

For me, it's the only reason I can have a career at all.

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Re:Apple employees criticize work-from-home policy in open l... by passivate on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @03:21PM (#31252355)
>What works for you may not be what works for everybody, and that's the point.

Instead of making it personal, lets make it general. According to you how many people have a problem working in the office for the reasons you listed?

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Re:Apple employees criticize work-from-home policy in open l... by smeej on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @05:15PM (#31253677)
What difference does it make whether their reasons are the same as mine or different from them?
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Re:Apple employees criticize work-from-home policy in open l... by passivate on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @06:48PM (#31254573)
You're right it wouldn't matter. I think I had a brain fart here. What I wanted to say was the thing with 'everybody has a point of view' is that not all points of view are equally represented in the population. I'm not going to dismiss the viewpoint of the people who do like coming in to work, if one person hates it. It would be nice to accommodate everyone's individual preferences in every situation, but realistically you can't make everyone happy if they're outside of whatever standard deviation a workplace can manage.
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Re:Apple employees criticize work-from-home policy in open l... by onion2k on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @02:34PM (#31251806)
I would not recommend that you get into full time remote work until you’ve decided you are OK with no significant career advancement.

I think I'd agree with you unless something crazy happened, like a global pandemic that completely shifted the way companies think and made them massively more likely to recruit remote workers.

If that happened then you'd have to be daft to think it wouldn't change anything.

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Re:Apple employees criticize work-from-home policy in open l... by lghh on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @02:31PM (#31251767)
I have significantly advanced my career working remote full time. You sound like you personally have been unable to advance your career and instead of being introspective about it are blaming it on remote work as a concept. Period.
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Re:Apple employees criticize work-from-home policy in open l... by birdyrooster on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @02:49PM (#31251986)
You are the exception that proves the rule.
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Re:Apple employees criticize work-from-home policy in open l... by thelittleone on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @02:52PM (#31252032)
I got promoted twice in 6 months having never been to the office. 100% fully remote. Without distraction of meeting everyone around the office I spent more time on results and selective 1:1 zoom calls.
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Re:Apple employees criticize work-from-home policy in open l... by tedivm on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @07:44PM (#31255067)
This is just wrong- it is completely and utterly wrong. "No significant career advancement" yet my career has progressed pretty damn well, as have my colleagues.
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