Damaging Results of Mandated Return to Office – It's Worse Than We Thought

Re:Damaging Results of Mandated Return to Office – It's Wors... by smaudet on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @12:31AM (#36502315)

This is what is meant by the "big corps haven't cracked it".

More progressive corps embraced online socializing earlier, and honestly that's all I need. To be sure something is lost socially by not being in person, but the workplace is not social-drinks club, or if it is that's where your productivity went.

You still build connections with people you only meet online, older folk might have more trouble with that, which makes sense why they might struggle to manage if they heavily depend on "making friends" to do their job.

Training and onboarding can be issues, but barring a straight up lack of talent generally focused efforts are probably better than just assuming the new employee will "make connections" and learn via osmosis.

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Re:Damaging Results of Mandated Return to Office – It's Wors... by raverbashing on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @03:46AM (#36503567)

This. Keeping a connection takes some effort

And yes this might mean going to the office once in a while or to a company event etc

Not an unsurmountable problem but it's not negligible neither (as much as it is slowly growing)

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