I worked for a company that regularly does half in person and half remote employees. You could choose either or. The problem with being the remote worker on a partially in-person team is that you miss all the face-time and exposure to new opportunities simply because you are not a person but a task completing widget.
You are never the presenter at company events. Nobody outside your team can recognize you. Nobody talks to you except to get something or clarify information. People can casually take credit for your work as you aren’t there to defend it. You lose out on all the background information like conference funding availability or the cool new job in Innovation.
You miss all the little opportunities for going the extra mile as you never look over your colleagues shoulder to see how they do their job and nobody looks over yours.
So much of success is being in the right place at the right time to meet the right person and that can’t happen as much remotely.
You are never the presenter at company events. Nobody outside your team can recognize you. Nobody talks to you except to get something or clarify information. People can casually take credit for your work as you aren’t there to defend it. You lose out on all the background information like conference funding availability or the cool new job in Innovation.
You miss all the little opportunities for going the extra mile as you never look over your colleagues shoulder to see how they do their job and nobody looks over yours.
So much of success is being in the right place at the right time to meet the right person and that can’t happen as much remotely.