Valid points, but all things that can be overcomed.
You just need a process, that's it.
Once you have a process you good to go.
My company has onboarding buddies.
Say you work for Saputo, just get assigned maybe 3 saputo buddies, set up cadences and you good.
Okay let's be real here, most companies even when onsite have horrible onboarding procedures, if any.
It's very often throw you in the water and learn to swim.
You only learn because of people around you not because any company has a good onboarding process.
Now, you just need to make that a process and virtualize it.
Right but most companies only do good onboarding for company info and hr policies, not onboarding for the specific role itself
Even being assigned buddies is not the same as actually seeing different department personnel at work doing what they do
My last job was mostly a desk gig reviewing other people's work.
But I took it upon myself to go out on the mfg floor, meet operators, supervisors, managers, make friends in various depts, look up who answers to who, hear everyone's motivations and goals. Within 2 months I was approving things and once in a while being asked to lead a couple meetings because I had that reach at that point.
Being onsite def helps the learning curve depending on the job. If the newbie has a go getter mindset but is remote, there's gonna be some roadblocks.
He or she may be able to get the immediate job done but that growth is gonna be stunted for a while because all they think about is just doing their job and clocking out when the road to leadership involves way more than that.
Most experienced people already paid their dues. They're no longer eager to add stress to go to the next level of leadership and deal with the political bs. So they just want to get paid and have work life balance. New professionals haven't gotten there yet. They still have lots to learn. Some of that stuff is def not gonna come through on Teams or Webex.
It should be hybrid schedules for newbies and becomes more days offsite/ full remote for the really experienced folks.