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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I find this surprising and not at all my experience. It’s not helpful to call everyone a dinosaur who disagrees with you, but my years of work experience has taught me not to call other people names.

I came to DC just over 20 years ago and quickly made a group of work friends in my office who were about my age. We had lunch together most days, did a lot of fun things together on the weekends, and have kept in touch as we’ve moved around in our careers. One of these work friends introduced me to my spouse years later, many have helped me with job promotions throughout the years and I’ve helped them.

Maybe all of that will happen to the next generation with just the same frequency over teams or zoom. I’m skeptical but I also understand that commutes are inconvenient so maybe people are just willing to sacrifice the opportunity for a lot of personal connections these days. Looking back a couple of decades these connections have been invaluable to me and I’m glad I made a lot of real friends in my first several years at work.[/quote]

Different poster, but I can tell you that remote works had improved my relationships with individuals in my own community—my neighbors, my kids teacher and coaches, local organizations I can now spend time volunteering with, and my friends that I have time for now that I’m not grinding into DC every day.  These relationships were suffering before.  Nothing has been lost, it’s just different and in many cases preferable.  [/quote]

DP. You say “it’s just different,” but it’s not. You can’t equate good work relationships and good community and friend relationships. Your employer wants the focus on work. You may want the focus to be on other relationships, but that’s not what your employer is paying you for. You’re comparing apples and oranges. [/quote]

It's like prison, if you are forced to basically live at work to get things done by participating in all the social non work stuff and having to work late when there are no distractions you build relationships at work while your home life suffers. Then the favoritism and affairs come in that scew things influenced by non work output. Wfh is pure work performance which is the most level equitable way to run a business or agency.[/quote]

The negative side of in person relationships is favoritism or affairs, the positive side is friendship, camaraderie, and positive group morale. I’m sorry if you’ve never had a positive in person work culture, I had a couple of decades in my office with no affairs to show for it. What we have now is not pure work performance, it seems like minimal output and effort from a lot of people.[/quote]

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