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comment by goobster
goobster  ·  1037 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: If You Thought Working From Home Was Messy, Here Comes Hybrid Work

My last local coworker on my team - my Boss - just moved 5 hours away. Now we are in Spokane, Portland, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and "on the road". I honestly have no idea where the two other guys live... they are just on the road all the time.

I'd like to see someone - anyone - make a case for why I should ever set foot inside my company's office again.

Which is going to be a problem for me, and workers like me, who are not specialists or uniquely skilled in any specific acronym you can find on LinkedIn. People like me do what needs to be done, have a wide range of experience to draw from, and can be deployed on almost any project.

But we languish at the edges. People forget about us. I went three years without a raise or a review because I never had a single manager for an entire review cycle. I'd get a review, we'd set goals, and then the manager would leave, or get promoted, or my job definition would get put under a different department, and my new manager would have a completely different set of goals.

The Salesforce guy interviewed in the article makes me think - yet again - that I will eventually wind up working for Salesforce. They are huge here. And they are aware that promotions and management are entirely powered by face-to-face interactions, so they are putting metrics in to measure remote workers' work and participation to help put the fingers on the scales and level them out again... but...

Yeah. Work is going to change. A lot. By this time next year, this post will look quaint... like a 1920's New Yorker cartoon of people living 'in the future'.