Moving from the Big City Can Hurt Your Career
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One of the more fascinating developments over the past 5 years has been the way the workplace has changed – both for the better and the worse. I find it fascinating because of the huge shifts that tend to have backlash and then a realization that we don’t know what is happening anymore. The debates tend to take a black/white approach, when it is always something in the middle. The idea of working from anywhere falls into this category. Which is what most interested me about this article in Business Insider.
The summary of the article is that people who took advantage of being able to work from anywhere during the pandemic are introducing additional risk into their career progression. Mostly in the fact that if they are laid off, the number of companies that will hire remote workers have dwindled and smaller cities have fewer opportunities. The logic makes sense – although it is moot if you never get laid off.
With my focus being on managers, I took a different look at this article. I asked myself 2 questions:
As a manager, would you coach an employee that they should move to or stay in a larger city?
Knowing the benefits of a smaller city and the drawbacks of a bigger city, how should you position an employee to make the bigger city the more favorable choice?