Color me crazy, but do you think the pandemic changes the requirements on what it takes to be “successful” in our profession? For example, since everything is virtual now, I feel like the people who have less social skills can get by easily since we’re not in person. There is also likely to be less attrition with work from home, so people can last longer. I just think a virtual world changes a lot of things in our job

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You're completely right.

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No it will take more social skills. Now u will have to kiss ass across skype and team to make ur boss likes u. Way harder to do than in person. The one that can do it will get all the promotions

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Yep I m sure we all have had that in person bonding experience with our bosses. Now that won’t happen anymore, so u have to make ur bosses want to like u Bc of ur amazing personality

We just had mid-year reviews at my company. I started reporting to a new person about halfway through the pandemic. I thought everything was great with WFH. I was cranking out work, meeting deadlines, enjoying flexibility. Turns out my new boss had a huge issue with the fact that I wasn’t communicating enough with him. He wanted to hear more from me. So, it’s not good enough that my work is getting done, now I have to actively communicate with him on everything. The lesson I have learned is that more communication is necessary now than ever.

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I honestly think it will take just a much social skill as before. From my experience so far, keeping up communication has been just as difficult if not more so across both internal teams and client conversations. And the only way to stand out to management now is to fully communicate the extent of the work you have done, as they are no longer sharing a room with you for extended periods of time if remote work is the majority of the time spent. Now, will it allow some people to get more work done and shine more easily in that regard? Sure, but the newer staff will also need to be helped out a lot more intentionally from the get-go in order to even start being a functional member of the team.

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Seems to be going fine for now but the lack of relationship building will catch up to us in the long run. This is a relationships business.

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