alt Hacker NewsWhen in office, I typically spend 70% of my time helping coworkers with their issues, since they feel like it's ok to just walk by and ask for help. When I work from home, my output skyrockets.
In essence, I'm a mentor, but have expectations to deliver high quality and reach tight deadlines.
I hate going to the office, since my commute is 45+45 minutes.
The moment I get forced to go to the office full time is the moment I take another offer where WFH is on the table.
Hire expencive, qualified workers who don't require hand-holding, and you won't have to care where they work from. Guaranteed.
> Hire expencive, qualified workers
> who don't require hand-holding,
> and you won't have to care where
> they work from.
But employees only get to that level of capability through early, engaged mentoring. WFH destroys that personal connection. So then you have new, or inexperienced, employees trawling through SharePoint trying to find some nugget of information about how and why X integrates with Y. Hours and hours are lost, I've seen it first-hand.
Whereas 15 minutes of face-time doodling on a page with an experienced analyst will accelerate the newbie's capability out of proportion to the time spent.