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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I trained, mentored, and built lifelong relationships with new employees during the pandemic and I don’t understand the dinosaurs who can’t imagine how this could be possible.  It takes a more deliberate effort but losing a commute is worth it.[/quote]

You think you did. You did not.

I had a job where I used to travel a lot, work late a lot. But we were huge on mentoring, training, going to conferences. I spent maybe 2,000 hours a year working with my co workers, had around 200 lunches a year with then maybe 60-70 dinners, went on 5-10 business trips, 10-20 happy hours, had maybe 40 mentoring sessions upwards and downwards and 40-60 hours formal training. We all work together on projects. I did that 8 years.

Remote, really? People forget what I described is how 21 year olds started career pre pandemic. Not sitting in mommy’s basement zooming with some broken down boomer on a once a week status call [/quote]

Based on my experience as a woman in the white collar workforce, as well as the experience relayed to me by others....those mentoring sessions, dinners, happy hours etc were not evenly distributed.   People tend to mentor and socialize with people like them, and unintentionally exclude others.

One of the appeals of remote work is that it forces mentoring to be pre-planned and structured, and thus that mentoring is far more evenly distributed.

It would be very interesting to see a breakdown by race and by gender of those who prefer remote versus RTO.  I sometimes feel like those promoting the many values of in-person collaboration are those who gained and maintained an advantage in that structure, and thus are reluctant to see it go.   And I don't think those who support RTO for that reason realize it either.  They assume everyone had the same experience and opportunities from in person work.[/quote]

I had a ton of in person mentoring when I was a junior employee and we had lunches and coffees with more senior staff. Now that I’m the manager I willingly do the same for junior staff in the office but not those who are remote. I’m not trying to exclude them but if they won’t make any effort for their careers then neither will I.[/quote]

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