I’ve been permanently remote for almost a decade. I will never go back to working in an office. Despite all this, I actually prefer working in an office becau

I’ve been permanently remote for almost a decade. I will never go back to working in an office. Despite all this, I actually prefer working in an office because it creates team camaraderie you don’t get remotely, but commuting is so horrid that it’s not worth it. Commuting, more than anything else, makes me a hardliner for remote work. I think you can absolutely onboard people and develop juniors remotely, but you have to be intentional about it. So many companies I’ve been at in my career did onboarding or OJT by giving out tasks and letting the employee organically learn from those around them. This process fails horribly with remote work, especially for juniors. But if you intentionally onboard people, focus on remote first, have a reading list, assign an onboarding buddy, and are up front about expectations and timelines, it’s completely workable and I’ve been at companies successfully doing this for years before WFH was commonplace.