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Re:Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says by concordDance on Friday December 01, 2023 @10:31AM (#38487873)
> I didn’t know it wasn’t possible to mentor junior employees remotely.

Might be possible, but most can't do it from what I've seen.

So if you go full wfh your pool of people who can mentor shrinks by a large factor (4x is my bet).

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Re:Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says by no_wizard on Friday December 01, 2023 @11:18AM (#38488426)
IMO most people can't mentor effectively to begin with, its simply a little more obvious when its remote.

This is solved by having a structured mentorship program and guidelines, and really good onboarding.

Of course, this means businesses have to invest in this sort of thing, and of course, they don't, because they implicitly got it for free by having seniors covering for juniors for so many decades it obfuscated the problem

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