At least 10 times a day, Erika Becker, who works as a sales development manager at a technology company called Verkada, turns to her boss with questions. “Did I handle that correctly?” she asks. “What could I have done better?”
“It’s like if there’s something in my teeth, I want you to tell me,” she said. “Because I want to move up in my career.”
"I literally NEED to be micromanaged every second of my day or else I'll never become a useless parasitic middle manager!!!" :maybe-later-kiddo:
The economists [...] found that remote work enhanced the productivity of senior engineers, but it also reduced the amount of feedback that junior engineers received (in the form of comments on their code), and some of the junior engineers were more likely to quit the firm. The effects of remote work, in terms of declining feedback, were especially pronounced for female engineers.
"Damn, misogyny and elitism are a real problem in our workplace...and this is totally because our wage slaves aren't within the panopticon at all times! It's totally not structural or organizational or economic mode issues at all!" :liberalism:
“It’s what grandparents have been saying for a long time,” Ms. Emanuel, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, said in an interview this month. “Face-to-face meetings are very different from FaceTime.”
Just literal boomer shit in a supposedly "serious" article. New York Times, more like Poo Pork [Balls] Times
Yes they're totally quitting due to lack of microaggressions and not lack of pay or benifets or anything tangible that would improve their material conditions.
Someone brought something like this up and the head of my department was like "yeah but we could just set up specific teams meetings where we exchange tips on coding praftices." Like there's definitely a benefit to a more senior engineer accidentally peeking over your shoulder, but it's not insurmountable, and it's stuff that should have formal practices established anyway. Like hoping good coding practices emerge from a series of accidents isn't good management!
Yeah the smart businessperson response here is "I need to make sure new employees get training and feedback until they're up to speed." Maybe some in-person time is useful for that, maybe not, depends on the industry.
When I was a junior engineer, i was surrounded by junior engineers because all the senior engineers either left for better pay or became managers, so I never had any mentorship of any kind.
It's entirely organization based, with little to do if its in person or not. Especially for software engineers, all the tracking and work is on the screen. Sitting in a conference room with your code on display is more about humiliation than anything.