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Don't Let Employees Pick Their WFH Days

• sdevonoes 5y ago
  > We found that WFH employees had a 50% lower rate of promotion after 21 months compared to their office colleagues. For tech people this is not a problem since most will not work more than 2 years for the same company (related offtopic: this is the reason I think "legacy code sucks": because the original authors never stayed the sufficient time in a given company to deal with maintaining their own old code).
  • gpvos 5y ago
    >most will not work more than 2 years for the same company I must have worked in weird tech companies all my life then. (The legacy code still sucks, though.)
    • sdevonoes 5y ago
      Me too :) I've been working for 3.5 years in my current company. It's only after 2 or 3 years that one realizes: "oh yeah, I should have written that code back then in a more maintainable way".
• gpvos 5y ago
  >We found that WFH [work from home] employees had a 50% lower rate of promotion after 21 months compared to their office colleagues. [Managers] often confided that home-based employees in their teams get passed over on promotions because they are out of touch with the office. While I think there is definitely merit to having the entire team in the office for at least some days of the week, managers should have enough self-insight to be able to just stop discriminating in this way when it comes to promotions.
  • mytailorisrich 5y ago
    As long as the team is local my preferred approach is to have one day when the whole team should be in office and to plan all face-to-face and team building activities on that day, then let people do whatever they want on the other days based on work requirements.