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Working remotely is career limiting. Period. I’m saying that as a remote worker. I would not recommend that you get into full time remote work until you’ve deci

Working remotely is career limiting. Period. I’m saying that as a remote worker. I would not recommend that you get into full time remote work until you’ve decided you are OK with no significant career advancement.

lghh 4y ago
I have significantly advanced my career working remote full time. You sound like you personally have been unable to advance your career and instead of being introspective about it are blaming it on remote work as a concept. Period.
- birdyrooster 4y ago
  You are the exception that proves the rule.
onion2k 4y ago
I would not recommend that you get into full time remote work until you’ve decided you are OK with no significant career advancement. I think I'd agree with you unless something crazy happened, like a global pandemic that completely shifted the way companies think and made them massively more likely to recruit remote workers. If that happened then you'd have to be daft to think it wouldn't change anything.
smeej 4y ago
Trying to force my neuro-divergent brain to work in an office setting where I'm surrounded by noisy people (any people, really), lights that may flicker, and temperatures I can't control is going to limit my career a lot more than failing to have serendipitous conversations in a hallway. What works for you may not be what works for everybody, and that's the point. It could be that remote work would have limited your career advancement. For me, it's the only reason I can have a career at all.
- passivate 4y ago
  >What works for you may not be what works for everybody, and that's the point. Instead of making it personal, lets make it general. According to you how many people have a problem working in the office for the reasons you listed?
  - smeej 4y ago
    What difference does it make whether their reasons are the same as mine or different from them?
    - passivate 4y ago
      You're right it wouldn't matter. I think I had a brain fart here. What I wanted to say was the thing with 'everybody has a point of view' is that not all points of view are equally represented in the population. I'm not going to dismiss the viewpoint of the people who do like coming in to work, if one person hates it. It would be nice to accommodate everyone's individual preferences in every situation, but realistically you can't make everyone happy if they're outside of whatever standard deviation a workplace can manage.
thelittleone 4y ago
I got promoted twice in 6 months having never been to the office. 100% fully remote. Without distraction of meeting everyone around the office I spent more time on results and selective 1:1 zoom calls.
tedivm 4y ago
This is just wrong- it is completely and utterly wrong. "No significant career advancement" yet my career has progressed pretty damn well, as have my colleagues.

lghh 4y ago

I have significantly advanced my career working remote full time. You sound like you personally have been unable to advance your career and instead of being introspective about it are blaming it on remote work as a concept. Period.

birdyrooster 4y ago
You are the exception that proves the rule.

onion2k 4y ago

I would not recommend that you get into full time remote work until you’ve decided you are OK with no significant career advancement. I think I'd agree with you unless something crazy happened, like a global pandemic that completely shifted the way companies think and made them massively more likely to recruit remote workers. If that happened then you'd have to be daft to think it wouldn't change anything.

smeej 4y ago

Trying to force my neuro-divergent brain to work in an office setting where I'm surrounded by noisy people (any people, really), lights that may flicker, and temperatures I can't control is going to limit my career a lot more than failing to have serendipitous conversations in a hallway. What works for you may not be what works for everybody, and that's the point. It could be that remote work would have limited your career advancement. For me, it's the only reason I can have a career at all.

passivate 4y ago
>What works for you may not be what works for everybody, and that's the point. Instead of making it personal, lets make it general. According to you how many people have a problem working in the office for the reasons you listed?
- smeej 4y ago
  What difference does it make whether their reasons are the same as mine or different from them?
  - passivate 4y ago
    You're right it wouldn't matter. I think I had a brain fart here. What I wanted to say was the thing with 'everybody has a point of view' is that not all points of view are equally represented in the population. I'm not going to dismiss the viewpoint of the people who do like coming in to work, if one person hates it. It would be nice to accommodate everyone's individual preferences in every situation, but realistically you can't make everyone happy if they're outside of whatever standard deviation a workplace can manage.

thelittleone 4y ago

I got promoted twice in 6 months having never been to the office. 100% fully remote. Without distraction of meeting everyone around the office I spent more time on results and selective 1:1 zoom calls.

tedivm 4y ago

This is just wrong- it is completely and utterly wrong. "No significant career advancement" yet my career has progressed pretty damn well, as have my colleagues.