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[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]

My office is planning to go 100% remote when it's time to go back, and while it's great for me now, I'd hate it if I were a new employee -- especially if I were just starting out in my career. When I started my career, I was new to DC and my workplace was where I met most of my friends. It's hard to make friends over zoom the way I did when I could just see everyone in person.[/quote]
I think there is definite validity to new, young employees needing some in person interaction and mentorship, but you need to balance that with the needs of the people you are asking to provide that mentorship. Are these people being compensated for the fact that they are being looked to provide training or mentorship? A lot of agencies have spent years shoving mentorship and training responsibilities off on people who are not necessarily being compensated for providing that. There was a period of time where I was the equivalent of a GS-13 yet being tasked with mentoring and training new hires and I had to draw my line in the sand. If you are expecting non managers to return to an office to provide this in person mentorship and training to new hires you better be prepared to compensate them appropriately for it. [/quote]

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