Initial Research by News Corp’s Growth Distillery
Experience has highlighted to me the impact on the lives and young careers of starting employees of the work-from-home experiment. WFH is great for caring for babies and toddlers and should be offered in such circumstances with the appropriate change in the role for skilled workplace trainers and mentors.
The Sunday Herald reported in research by the Corp’s Growth Distillery, and as quoted in the article, “Young people today are faced with challenges that seem to be overwhelming them. They include threats such as climate change and the cost-of-living issues that may keep them dependent, or have them struggling to house and feed themselves on a young person’s wage.” Described in the article
Couple the issues your people are facing today with the difficulty in securing their initial career job and having positive casual and formal career development interactions found in the workplace; it is a tidal wave of concerns to their mental health and well-being.
“more of them lost years of learning social relationships, being limited by Covid-19 to online connections” Described in the article.
“The structure of the workplace has broken down, such that there are fewer casual supports, fewer opportunities for casual learning and fewer possibilities for making connections with mentors and those who may support your career.” Described in the article
Nurses, Police, and other customer-facing employees cannot work from home, nor can those charged with mentoring and training new career entry employees effectively provide the appropriate mentoring and training from home to non-customer-facing new career or new-to-the-job employees.