Scoop: Biden pushes to end remote work era for feds

[Lithos]

74. I work in IT

TBH, your senior people do not want to be bothered but are too "nice" to say no in person. The fix is to change their motivation. And I am sad they are not self-motivated.

In my field, I am a Principal Software/Data Engineer working for a Fortune 20, so I am one of those "senior" people. My scales are billions of $$$ and hundreds of millions of customers. I have team members in the US in each time zone from East Coast to West Coast, Monterrey (MX), and all over Eastern Europe - Serbia, Poland, Ukraine, and Georgia. We will never be "face to face" - we must use technology to work with people regardless of location. We succeed. But to succeed, you have to want to succeed.

Like my peers up and down the ladder, we're strongly incentivized to mentor and develop junior engineers. And it is not just for the money or reviews, but a general love of the technology. We can't go play with "fun" things until we have grown people who can work with us to develop new products.

The other thing Remote work has opened up, which is so powerful, is Diversity. Diversity of people, diversity of experience, diversity of mind. I do not think this is possible when limited to people who can only work (even occasionally) from one physical location. We have more diversity than many companies in the Bay Area or New York City. Diversity is one of the most misunderstood and powerful unlocks Remote work enables.

Remote work makes my life better, but it also makes my company better. I have the metrics and outcomes to prove it (but I can not share them for obvious reasons).