Remote work is for people who don’t want to grow
If you want to grow in career, being fully remote absolutely sucks. Growth and progress doesn’t happen in isolation. You need to be close to the action and similar minded people for that. Not saying you have to go to the office every day 5 days a week but expecting to have any real growth professionally while never interacting with humans and having some sort of connection is a pipe dream. This is more true especially for early stage startups and smaller companies. Tesla wasn’t built fully remote, Amazon wasn’t built fully remotely ; there’s a reason human beings work way better together in person as opposed to over a zoom screen
Having growth in your career has nothing to do with breathing the same air as your coworkers in some soulless corporate office. It’s the impact you have on the company and product that really counts. Just because you’re getting lonely or like to play the office politics games doesn’t mean that everyone else can’t grow professionally. Maybe you should do some self reflection.
Impact matters but being behind a screen doesn’t build any real connection
It’s hard to kiss managers ass from the screen
Do you have to be in a classroom to learn? By the time you're in uni being in a class is a waste of time. You can learn almost everything you need from the books and professors are usually bad teachers. So why go to class? To learn what will be on the test. You don't go to the office to learn how to grow, that can be done effectively remotely. If you don't know how then that's your problem. You go to the office to play politics and that is how you advance your career.
Tell that to the kids who tried to learn in school via zoom because of vivid
Covid **
Thank you for this common RTO talking point without any hard evidence to back it up. Please excuse me while I continue to work fully remote without ever going back to the office ever again. TC: 90K, fully remote
How are you expecting hard evidence when remote work became mainstream only in last couple of years? Whether it played any hindrance to someone's career growth can only be known after 5 or 10 years.
The same way we knew we didn't need to wear a suit to be more productive.
Not necessarily. Pre-COVID, I was on a Supervisor role in-office. In 2021 (post-COVID-ish), I moved to a FT Remote role as a manager. In 2022 I moved to another FT Remote role this time a Director role. Now I have a job offer for a Sr Director role, guess what? Also remote…. I have been working more being remote than when I was in office. I have more flexibility now which allows me to do more and although I cant connect with my team or peers in person, it doesn’t stop the fact that you can still find ways to be effective and grow.
I don't want to grow in SWE
Same. I’m at a good spot if I can keep the same level.
Agree.. good spot now, don't want more shits
Growth is overated. There is only TC
Nice buzzwords. You forgot to mention synergy
lol'd
LOLOL
I’ve only ever been remote my whole career (4 years lol) and have grown a lot and doubled my TC
Ok boomer
Ok Gen Z
You must be old!
I mean he’s #readyforwork. Old, laid off and bitter