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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s a dumb article but there are some valid points.  The people who suffer most from telework are the more junior staff that just don’t get as much professional development.  I’m a senior person and would love to continue to just work from home most of the time but it’s not really fair to the junior folks.  I know they are struggling.  Face time for face time’s sake is dumb but the truth is that most humans are better at developing connections in person.  We are struggling with finding the balance, as an office.

I also think that many employers will just hire peoole in lower COLA locations rather than people around here, if they are going to be primarily remote.  That happened years ago with customer service and then with IT support, when businesses realized how someone could do it from Ohio for 50K just as easily as someone in DC doing it for 80K.  [/quote]

Only works for fully remote jobs. If those are plentiful, many DC-based workers would gladly move to lower cost-of-living states and take/keep these jobs.

In reality, I suspect even the most pro-WFH bosses will almost always want people to be able to come into the office from time to time.[/quote]

At my federal office in DC, we required 100% teleworking remote staff to come into our agency's DC office for one week every 10 weeks. That's 5 trips to DC per year, paid for by my agency. This was so they could maintain a personal connection to their bosses and colleagues living in the Capital region.

98% of remote workers would have no issue with that stipulation. All expenses-paid week in DC away from their kids and home responsibilities? LOL[/quote]

that sounds amazing[/quote]

For real! What agency?[/quote]

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