@deilann Yeah, my employer keeps saying we're going to be required to be in office again...hasn't happened yet...but they hired a ton of people all over the country during the pandemic; those people aren't moving up here and they can't afford to fire them so they have no choice but to remain hybrid for the foreseeable future.

And I'm good with that, I (mostly) like working from home, and I don't particularly give a crap about what's best for the company...but what they do desperately need to sort out is a method of training people that isn't still depending on leaning over and asking the guy sitting next to you when you have a question. As far as I can tell, the majority of the company has ZERO formal training process. And shit changes so often it's kinda hard to put one together, training materials from two years ago would be nearly useless already. But most people really suck at teaching things on the fly on a conference call, most people don't learn very well that way, and many people aren't great about asking for help in that environment either...and then there's the issues of it devolving into the few experieced people spending all their time bouncing between unplanned calls with the newbies...

It's not that we don't have the technology either...maybe it's just this one company (although it's a big one! And I have heard similar stories from others...) but they've gotta figure out some better ways to move information now that passive diffusion can no longer be relied upon...