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"Hard truth I learned as a CEO: Sometimes you have to lie to get what you want, regardless of reality and facts"
Anyone who thinks more work gets done in the office is an idiot, or lying.
Eh, it depends. I find that there is a benefit in highly collaborative projects or in an environment where training is a component.
For instance, a lot of data showed that junior staff productivity tanked as they didn't have the mentoring opportunities that they would have had in a full remote environment.
Do many people get mentored in the office? I have worked for decades and have never been mentored.
Edit: I assume random, one off comments don't count as mentoring. "Don't put your feed up on the desk" isn't mentoring right?
Between interns and junior engineers, I'd say I am doing about 0.5 to 1 day a week of 1 on 1 work with all of them. Sometimes it's direct problem solving and other times it's going over topics they are interested in. The last few weeks have been on development processes and workflows, time management and getting things done, presentations and soft skills. I even helped one work on interviewing.
If I can train them to be amazing at their next job chances are they stick around longer and do great things here.
In my industry, it is very common. It is generally accepted that a large part of senior staff's time is reviewing the work of junior staff to make the work better. A lot of that requires teaching junior staff how to perform the work correctly.
Depends on the career. As an engineer I really wish we'd quit our decentralized bullshit and just form a guild or union so that after university you join an official apprenticeship rather than find a job looking for people without experience willing to train. The whole x years of experience is often really asking how much mentorship do you need and are you able to lead projects.