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How about a tool to help keep junior employees engaged, motivated, and confident that they are not incompetent? IME, remote work is a situation where people ne
by apohn 9y ago
How about a tool to help keep junior employees engaged, motivated, and confident that they are not incompetent?
IME, remote work is a situation where people need to have a lot of self discipline and be okay with guiding themselves. With senior employees, they typically have a good framework (from past experience) to guide themselves in the right direction.
Junior employees typically don't have the experience to know the direction they need to take, and they need feedback. They also don't want to look like fools so they are reluctant to ask for help/guidance.
In an office environment a good manager can notice this and provide help without the junior level employee needing to ask explicitly. In remote work, it's easy to have a junior employee basically feel like they are drowning (figuratively) and nobody will notice until it's too late (e.g. person quits, their part of the project has clearly gone off the rails, etc). I think somebody that would allow for greater mentorship between remote employees would be useful to helping juniors get over that initial stage in jobs.
- itamarst 9y agoIt's not really a good idea to hire junior employees for remote work, for this very reason. Doubtful technology can solve the problem.