How to set junior employees up for success in remote

Re:How to set junior employees up for success in remote by staticassertion on Monday June 27, 2022 @09:11AM (#31894082)

You say "duh" but this is pretty controversial and there's a big push for remote work right now. I'm "pro remote" - my company is full remote, for example. I also think I'd have a much worse career if my first job hadn't been in an office, especially such a cool office with great coworkers to chat with. Being in an office was incredibly motivating and exciting as a junior developer.

Being in an office also made it clear how much I worked. I was there on most weekends and people noticed.

I'm not saying that that's more important than the benefits of remote, but people absolutely do act like it's a black and white scenario.

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Re:How to set junior employees up for success in remote by bigDinosaur on Monday June 27, 2022 @09:14AM (#31894126)

Conversely, I despise my first in-office experience and it completely turned me off ever going into an office ever again. It was incredibly demotivating to go there when I didn't actually need to - and the idea of 'watercooler creativity' is something I found to be a lie in an office environment. I've developed a real hatred for in-office work as a result of seeing how unnecessary it was when I went remote for two years and was just as productive.

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Re:How to set junior employees up for success in remote by staticassertion on Monday June 27, 2022 @09:36AM (#31894414)

Of course, I'm sure many people have had similar experiences to both of us. I'm only saying that there's a lot of grey area here.

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