(Rant) WFH people will make less than WFO people over their career
I keep clashing with “remote work” fans on this platform. In India’s tech world, the fastest way to grow is by showing up at the office.
You don’t pick up real skills or product sense while sitting in pajamas and staring at a blurry Zoom windows. You learn when a senior taps your shoulder, takes you to a whiteboard, and tears apart your work right there. You grow when you overhear a quick hallway chat after a production outage and see how the CTO thinks. Slack threads full of emojis can’t teach you that.
People swap all of this for the comfort of skipping a commute and heating lunch at home. Nice you saved two hours. Meanwhile, the kid who rides the metro is landing the big projects, getting noticed, and has a mentor who knows his face, not just his avatar. Guess who gets promoted first?
Remote work works if you’re already a seasoned pro. If you’re early in your career, every day away from the office is a missed chance to learn. Don’t trade long-term growth for short-term convenience. You only get one shot to soak up that knowledge—choose wisely.
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Here is the thing. Growth is not more important than stability in life. Gen Zs know that. Later millennials also know that. 15% hike does not compensate 2 hours commute , toxic workplace , sucking up to the management and not seeing your kid grow up at home. 5 days work from office is the most soul sucking thing in this era of internet. Our parent's generation did it cos there was no internet let alone zoom nor the concept of working after 6 pm.
When gen Zs get promoted ,do you think they will arrive at office 5 days a week travelling 4 hours to train the juniors and notice them? They will do most of it remotely, successfully, cutting the unnecessary background noise. Log off at 6 pm to have dinner with wife and kids. That's the balance we all human beings deserve and will achieve.
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Agree I have 2 yrs of experience and after switch am working remotely. I can travel, play games spend time with family and friends and what not. All we need to do is deliver the work that's it. Also I will say don't be loyal to your company because when company is out of money they won't take a minute to kick(fire) you.
Trust me it doesn't matter whether you work from office or home it's your skills which speaks not your face.
I'm a millennial who has gone to five days or even 6 days office for atleast 10 years.
Anyone who has any brains can work easily remotely.
We work to live, we don't live to work.
Idk what isolated life you live, but people have health issues, kids to care for, pets to care for, elderly parents. Not to mention finding time for their partners, friends and hobbies.
Also special needs kids need more attention. Need both parents involved.
Remote work makes all of this possible.
Please get off your able- ist high horse and think of others. I was perfectly fine & even able to live in office in my early 20s & 30s. But chronic health issues can happen to anyone, including you.
Not sure if TCS is giving more to it’s employees in any terms. They have 5days WFO . Just see their downfall in last 3 yrs . WFO doesn’t garuntees growth
True. When they started to strict to WFO, then they facing lot of issues. If we are doing WFO then who will get benefits. Not for us. Real estate, they need rent , businesses man want business and gov need, people need to use petrol and diesel. Around us, every one will get benefits instead of us. We need to earn money, we need to pay tax , we need to use all the things, we need to give all business what they need. So for these purpose only we are earning and doing WFO. For this , we need to sacrifice our family… This is what happening in India… no one talking about labor law… this need to change.
Ironically,in 2020 TCS was the first company to announce that only 25% of its workforce would be working from office by 2025.
Sitting in office till 9pm or 10 pm, delayed appraisals or no appraisals , Licking your boss boots is this what you count in growth?????? In current scenario, if you really want growth then just switch...for that you need to work hard on skills which can be learnt by working from home also.
Also working from office to get 3% hike is not worthy
There is no limit of learning and growth, WFH might be a priority and taking care of elderly parents, staying close to family. What is the point of having lots of income but being away from parents when they need it most.
I've seen both types of people.
If you have 1+ yoe with good tech stack knowledge, along with discipline + accountability towards your work, then you would be better off remotely.
If you slack around & delay what you need to do then just do 5 days WFO. Or if you're into getting into good books service via being seen in the office, then yeah, enjoy on your 5 days WFO. We don't want it.
The second part is something most of my friends and their friends working at TCS do 😂
Well, speaking from my perspective I never had mentors per se...
Just people who reviewed my code and I learnt from them and online articles and all.
It's great if you have an awesome architect at office and you wfo, (I had a senior like that in last office but couldn't get into his team) otherwise I feel it's just a waste of time.