Many people recognize the benefits of fully remote work, and those advantages have been widely discussed on HN. What are some of the less obvious downsides?
What are some overlooked or unexpected disadvantages?
Many people recognize the benefits of fully remote work, and those advantages have been widely discussed on HN. What are some of the less obvious downsides?
What are some overlooked or unexpected disadvantages?
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Working fully remote, especially in a firm you recently joined, will make it far more difficult to achieve this sense of belonging - which cuts both ways! You will likely have more trouble feeling you belong there and your coworkers might feel the same towards you.
If the entire company is remote, there is a lot of disorganization, missed opportunities to keep things in sync. And the organization may sometimes also become flatter (less hierarchy). While less hierarchy sounds good, it also comes with the balance that you're more responsible for a bad decision (because often you have to make more decisions).
The best thing, obviously, is earning potentially a million in 3-8 years (depending on your comp) without having to drive to an office.
There are mentoring and office based behaviors and norms that people learn from each other through osmosis. I think it's a career mistake to never work with other people building something every day in the same room together.
I wouldn't hire a fresh grad who never worked in an office before.
I've been fully remote for longer than I was an in-office worker but those formative years being in-person were very important from a skills and social / emotional IQ perspective.