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In my experience WfH is perfectly fine for the old hands, their productivity goes up due to lack of commute. However, it's absolutely awful for onboarding junio
by concordDance 4y ago
In my experience WfH is perfectly fine for the old hands, their productivity goes up due to lack of commute. However, it's absolutely awful for onboarding juniors and knowledge transfer.
Normal churn hits you MUCH harder if you are remote and even if you have a good documentation culture (hah, that's a tiny minority) there's a lot of intangible knowledge that doesn't get written down.
- viraptor 4y agoSo you tell your juniors and seniors to communicate. I'm spending some time every week talking to either juniors or peers about things they're learning. If your seniors don't initiate teaching and your juniors don't ask enough questions... That's not an issue with a remote system.
- concordDance 4y ago"Tell them to communicate" is much less effective than having an environment that makes it natural and encourages it. E.g. the reason way more people are fat now is not because being slim isn't possible or because willpower has gone down, its because the environment is different. You can just tell people to eat less or you can make eating healthily and less easy. Given the state of the fresh grads and the company culture in my previous company, wfh is much worse onboarding.
- greedo 4y ago"An environment that makes it natural and encourages it." In 24 years of IT, I've never seen this unicorn environment.
- concordDance 4y agoMy previous company managed it with the expectation that people take regular breaks and pick someone to take that break with.
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