It makes sense that a team with a good mix of youth and experience can be successful while keeping costs low and maintaining the pipeline of creating future experienced employees.
While WFH has been great for employees (and employers), one of the great casualties of the WFH culture has been the lack of opportunities for new inexperienced employees to learn from their more experienced colleagues by way of ad-hoc conversations, overhearing conversations around them (and gatecrashing these conversations). One of the main reasons why we need a hybrid WFH working culture.
A big YES ... and that's one reason more why "remote only" working environments are damaging, because all human interaction is scheduled and doesn't allow for chance. In consequence, the experience of chance, contingency, hazard or whatever English word you find for the German "Zufall" is missing.
As a freelancer, I've gotten quite some contracts in my career because just someone overheard a conversation with me while working on the client's site.
40 years ago, I was looking for a book in the University library, and by chance the book just beside the one I searched attracted my attention, I opened it, and it changed the way of my studies.
Being a client of banks, I find the juniorisation difficult and have some pity for the greenhorns trying to make their pitch to sell something which I know will be bad for my investment situation.
It makes sense that a team with a good mix of youth and experience can be successful while keeping costs low and maintaining the pipeline of creating future experienced employees.
While WFH has been great for employees (and employers), one of the great casualties of the WFH culture has been the lack of opportunities for new inexperienced employees to learn from their more experienced colleagues by way of ad-hoc conversations, overhearing conversations around them (and gatecrashing these conversations). One of the main reasons why we need a hybrid WFH working culture.
Spot on
A big YES ... and that's one reason more why "remote only" working environments are damaging, because all human interaction is scheduled and doesn't allow for chance. In consequence, the experience of chance, contingency, hazard or whatever English word you find for the German "Zufall" is missing.
As a freelancer, I've gotten quite some contracts in my career because just someone overheard a conversation with me while working on the client's site.
40 years ago, I was looking for a book in the University library, and by chance the book just beside the one I searched attracted my attention, I opened it, and it changed the way of my studies.
Being a client of banks, I find the juniorisation difficult and have some pity for the greenhorns trying to make their pitch to sell something which I know will be bad for my investment situation.