Is Remote Work a Dead End for Professional Development?

Since COVID, our society has shifted to a remote work mentality. Downtown offices are empty, commercial space has flooded the market and the typical job for a college grad has a remote work component.
Gen Z and young millennial workers have embraced this, saying this evolution is not only needed - it is liberating. Why spend your entire day chained to a desk when you could enjoy working from coffee houses, home offices or wherever? 8 hour days are exhausting when some workers are able to break up their workload over a more manageable time.
It seems to be a win-win for everyone.
But is it?
What if in 5-10 years an entire generation of workers wake up and realize they are no longer valuable and don't have real seniority - that their employers can easily replace them with younger, less expensive workers.
Here's the deal - when you work remote you simply miss out on years of professional development. You don't get the collaborative experience so valuable from working literally alongside older, more experienced workers. A slack isn't a replacement for 5 days and hundreds of interactions with colleagues.
In this podcast, I talk about how franchise ownership - the ultimate remote work gig - has a nifty solution for replacing this missing professional development for young workers.
See if you agree!
Thomas Scott - [email protected]