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Originally Posted by XutvJet
Offices will definitely be a thing in the future, they just might look a bit different with more compact and efficent layouts where office and cube "hoteling" is common rather than people having their dedicated spaces. Hoteling can work well with people coming in 2 to 3 days a week. In most cases, being in the office fulltime won't be as common as it once was, but most companies will go to a hybrid system requiring staff to be in the office 2-3 days a week. For younger and newer staff, probably more often to get to know people in person. For our staff that only want to come in 2-3 days a week, they are in a hoteling situation. For me that comes in 3+ days a week, I get a dedicated office.
As a 48 y/o manager in the environmental consulting with 25 years of experience, there is NO WAY for a new staff member, especially one fresh out of the school, to be remotely successful being fully remote compared to someone that is coming into the office on a routine basis. I have seen this first hand with numerous staff in our offices over the past 3 years. There is something to be said to be able to walk to your manager's office to ask question, shoot the crap, and such. Same goes for just talking with your colleagues by the coffee machine. I don't know how many times I've learned something new, solved a problem, etc. by just randomly shooting the crap with someone while waiting for my coffee cup to fill. Doing video and conference calls is terrible and inefficient for so many reasons, IMO.
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Completely agree with everything you said, especially concerning new employees. All else being equal, if a manager has two young employees and an issue requires immediate resolution, most likely that manager will just go right outside her office and get that answer from the employee sitting right there, not set up a call and try to explain via Zoom. I got my brother hired at my company and told him to take every opportunity to go into the office and to get his name out there.
I am thankful for remote work however. I knew what I needed to get done in order to become successful but labored through every second of it because I’m an introvert. I traveled the world with my bosses over the years but where they wanted to shoot the shit after work I wanted to go back to the hotel and eat takeaway. They were all awesome people and each helped me get to the next level, and it was always fun once I was out, but man getting there was misery. Once the day finished I was exhausted. I don’t know how much higher I want to go, but I did what needed to be done in order to get where I am and advise all junior employees as such.