Yes. You get to have conversations on the side and forge other connections in simple human ways that are otherwise challenging online.
Work can happen remotely but building a career happens face to face (specifically your networking - which you will use when you move jobs in the future)
I’m not saying it won’t happen remotely, and I might sound like a boomer but that’s personal thoughts On the matter.
Remote is optimised for senior individual contributors who no longer need direct supervision, and do not have supervisory responsibilities themselves. Being on-premise (where the bosses are) will inevitably lead to career acceleration
there is now a significant body of research on this, mainly on the significance of proximity to the decision maker and the value of 'osmotic information transfer'
Google the following papers
- The Power of Proximity to Coworkers (2023)
- The Old Boys Club (2019)
Also, many cases of precedence in history where simply being close the King (the decision maker) itself leads to the accumulation of power / influence (therefore career progression). Praetorians in ancient Rome, bodyguards to the Emperor but ending up accumulating power enough to actually decide who was going to be Emperor, or the Eunuchs in ancient China - originally emasculated house servants, but ended up controlling access to the Emperor and becoming powers behind the throne.
Trumpian deep state theory is an attempt to disrupt the bureaucratic power of institutions which have acquired and compounded power, wealth and influence by being proximate to the ostensible authority
Are the bosses different from the senior ICs? (I assume they are).
So then "career acceleration" basically means political influence because the managers recognize your face, not upskilling from exposure to senior ICs (because they are all remote), right?
Likely. At one of my companies I have worked there for two years and know nobody outside my team. My skip manager barely knows anything about me. I have no idea what other opportunities in the org might exist.
That being said, I will utterly derail my career to keep remote work. I’ll work for a bank over a FAANG to keep it. Remote is worth throwing everything else away.
It feels like hybrid is always the worst of both worlds.
It's very likely that most people are actually in office and there is a unspoken expectation that you are in the office at least a couple of days. Typically, the work culture is centered around direct conversations in the office. If that is the case, you are more likely to succeed if you are in the office. Few companies or teams are looking for better tooling to support remote or hybrid work.
Companies that have a great remote culture are all about async communication. You also don't necessarily need dailies to be a live event but each team should figure out what works best for them in that regard.
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[ 4.5 ms ] story [ 32.5 ms ] threadWork can happen remotely but building a career happens face to face (specifically your networking - which you will use when you move jobs in the future)
I’m not saying it won’t happen remotely, and I might sound like a boomer but that’s personal thoughts On the matter.
Remote is optimised for senior individual contributors who no longer need direct supervision, and do not have supervisory responsibilities themselves. Being on-premise (where the bosses are) will inevitably lead to career acceleration
Google the following papers
- The Power of Proximity to Coworkers (2023) - The Old Boys Club (2019)
Also, many cases of precedence in history where simply being close the King (the decision maker) itself leads to the accumulation of power / influence (therefore career progression). Praetorians in ancient Rome, bodyguards to the Emperor but ending up accumulating power enough to actually decide who was going to be Emperor, or the Eunuchs in ancient China - originally emasculated house servants, but ended up controlling access to the Emperor and becoming powers behind the throne.
Trumpian deep state theory is an attempt to disrupt the bureaucratic power of institutions which have acquired and compounded power, wealth and influence by being proximate to the ostensible authority
So then "career acceleration" basically means political influence because the managers recognize your face, not upskilling from exposure to senior ICs (because they are all remote), right?
That being said, I will utterly derail my career to keep remote work. I’ll work for a bank over a FAANG to keep it. Remote is worth throwing everything else away.
It's very likely that most people are actually in office and there is a unspoken expectation that you are in the office at least a couple of days. Typically, the work culture is centered around direct conversations in the office. If that is the case, you are more likely to succeed if you are in the office. Few companies or teams are looking for better tooling to support remote or hybrid work.
Companies that have a great remote culture are all about async communication. You also don't necessarily need dailies to be a live event but each team should figure out what works best for them in that regard.