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So, what, you have a playpen of juniors and no one there to help them? That makes zero sense. The premise of lower level staff needing to be in person is so s

• s1artibartfast 5y ago
  This all depends on where you draw the line for senior and job responsibilities. One position is that juniors and mentors must come onsite and work in the playpen. Alternatively, you could expect the juniors to train help each other in the playpen with offsite mentoring. It all comes down to how you think your shop is most productive and how learning will occur.
• rodgerd 5y ago
  I am put in mind of the policy during the years when HP were a successful, growing company, that managers sat in open areas, while engineers sat in offices; the managers' work is being available to their staff; staff needed to be able to focus on their work. This is just capitalism-is-feudalism bullshit.
  • astrange 5y ago
    That probably works, but a downside is that you probably want privacy when having a 1:1, and if you only leave for a meeting room when it's a difficult conversation, then people are going to be able to tell. Also when I worked in a former HP building there weren't any windows in the offices, so that was depressing.