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I'm not saying I don't enjoy mentoring people and sharing knowledge! I'm saying that it is unreasonable for companies to ban WFH, and I explained what I think

I'm not saying I don't enjoy mentoring people and sharing knowledge! I'm saying that it is unreasonable for companies to ban WFH, and I explained what I think is the true motivation behind that decision. To clarify - companies are banning WFH so they can lower their hiring bar and take on incompetent people and not have to pay for or provide any company training. They just rely solely on their senior people to teach the new people everything. The article was about WFH policies, and that's what I am commenting on. I'm not saying mentorship == bad or coming into the office == never. I'm saying mentorship can be done while working from home, and banning it is a terrible company policy.

HeavenBanned 10y ago
You act as though companies aren't obligated to pool their training resources in a manner in which the senior employees are spending say X amount of time training junior employees. They're spending money on training - just not how you want them to. They're getting training done the way it's been done for thousands of friggin' years, man, via the master and apprentice interplay. Thousands. Of. Years. Mano a mano. I think working from home makes no sense. Home is for home, and work is for work. If you want to work from home, you should consider freelancing, otherwise working is a collaborative process done in a communal setting and oftentimes the best training is direct, regular contact and education transmitted from sr. to jr. employee. I think most companies have come to this conclusion and have determined that WFH is a detriment to quality jr training and is simply not cost effective. It's a win-win for the firm: 1.) they get to train their jr.s for the future with high-quality experts from their own team at the scene on demand 2.) they avoid sinking money into shitty training sessions which do nothing but band-aid the lack of genuine mentorship that is not done via chat protocols and instead subtract productivity from the top srs and pool it towards the jrs development. I'm not sure why you can't see this from the business's perspective. It just seems like you really want to work from home. But what do I know? My hunch.

HeavenBanned 10y ago

You act as though companies aren't obligated to pool their training resources in a manner in which the senior employees are spending say X amount of time training junior employees. They're spending money on training - just not how you want them to. They're getting training done the way it's been done for thousands of friggin' years, man, via the master and apprentice interplay. Thousands. Of. Years. Mano a mano. I think working from home makes no sense. Home is for home, and work is for work. If you want to work from home, you should consider freelancing, otherwise working is a collaborative process done in a communal setting and oftentimes the best training is direct, regular contact and education transmitted from sr. to jr. employee. I think most companies have come to this conclusion and have determined that WFH is a detriment to quality jr training and is simply not cost effective. It's a win-win for the firm: 1.) they get to train their jr.s for the future with high-quality experts from their own team at the scene on demand 2.) they avoid sinking money into shitty training sessions which do nothing but band-aid the lack of genuine mentorship that is not done via chat protocols and instead subtract productivity from the top srs and pool it towards the jrs development. I'm not sure why you can't see this from the business's perspective. It just seems like you really want to work from home. But what do I know? My hunch.