Do you agree with Goldman COO's comment below that collaboration and mentorship among employees are weakened through remote work environment? I personally haven't felt much impact in that area - but sure productivity dips. Likely depends on each firm's culture and the way they operate. "Waldron explained one reason they are eager to return: Concern that Goldman’s vaunted culture, which leans on in-person collaboration and mentorship of junior personnel, will weaken over months of remote interaction. 'I worry that it decays over time,' Waldron said. 'We are anxious to get some of our people starting to come back into offices and starting to reinvest in the culture and that people-development aspect.'" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/27/goldman-is-bringing-traders-back-to-offices-in-new-york-and-london-in-the-next-several-weeks.html
Big load of bullsh*t. If mentorship and collaboration dips during WFH, then it testifies to the culture at the firm pre-COVID. Culture is not pre or post COVID.
I kinda agree. While I can see this remote work situation has an impact on day to day collaborations and ease of doing business, especially for the firms that had not experimented with this remote work concept before, culture is another matter and any impact on that front probably has much deeper root cause than just covid or wfh situation.
Collaboration definitely weekend but meh
Remote work sucks- ideally a mix of office and remote is needed
Yes a mix of both would really be ideal
100% agree
totally agree.
Disagree. I spend all of my day in collaboration sessions with a team that sits across the globe. Makes no difference if I'm doing it from a corporate desk or the comfort of my own home.
I don't agree - but I understand where he is coming from. Banking teams depend a lot more on good interpersonal relationships than tech imo, so it might be true for them, but not for tech.
Maybe they'll lose the part of their culture that caused the Great Recession.
Way to ignore the context. The article mentions bringing traders back to foster mentoring. A lot of learning for a junior trader is to watch a senior trader do what they do and learn, eventually executing trades themselves with senior supervision. Pretty hard to do that remotely
Yes, I agree. Hard to connect with someone and have spontaneous one-on-one conversations.
True, spontaneous convos are more difficult with working remote, even with instant messaging
Yeah there really is something to be said about micro interactions. Is what brings the bullpen together tbh.