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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Young employees (new grads) hate WFH. [/quote]

No they don't. That's just something micromanaging boomers in worthless middle management positions say without any evidence to support their claims.

Younger workers have also never done commutes for 10-20 years yet and don't have kids.  Let's hear their opinions when they get closer to 40 and have wasted thousands of hours of their lives sitting in traffic or taking public transportation just to get to work. [/quote]

My 22 year old daughter moved to Boston by her office for her job. They promised RTO but boomers keep pushing it back. She plans on quitting next year if no RT0. [b]How can she learn sitting in her tiny rental by herself? [/b][/quote]

The same as if she were in the office.  Really.  She should volunteer for work, ask for more work, attend meetings, schedule follow-up meetings to ask Qs since she is new, etc.  It should not be any different.  The world is not moving away from virtual so someone like your daughter needs to learn how to use technology to get what she needs out of her job.  Someone who can’t message someone on Teams to ask if she can help with something isn’t necessarily going to be able to stop by someone’s office and ask the same question.  [/quote]

It's different. The lack of in-person meetings and spontaneous interactions makes it harder to build real connections, and those connections matter both for doing your job well and future networking. For me, WFH is still worth it because I have kids, I already have a strong network, and I have in-person professional events not tied to my current job. But if you're young, you miss out on a lot. [/quote]

Disagree assuming your employer uses Teams.  You simply have to use available technology.  [/quote]

I'm on Teams. I very much use the available technology. There's information that people aren't going to share with you on Teams. There's trust that doesn't get built as quickly, or at all. No one walks by your desk and it occurs to them to pull you into a meeting they wouldn't have otherwise. You don't get coffee and chat with someone and realize you're running into the same problem. You don't have a question where you don't know who to ask, but you know where their division sits so you can go upstairs and find out who to talk to. All of these were experiences that I had in the six months or so prior to COVID. Again, this is worth it to me to WFH, but if you're not missing out on interpersonal interactions via remote work, you were missing out on them before. [/quote]

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