Codie Sanchez argues that working from home in pajamas on Zoom limits career advancement. She describes a high-performing asset manager who accepted reduced opportunities after relocating for family, concluding you can have it all, but not at the same time.
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A really hard truth is that you're not going to have the career that you want, the success that you want if you work from home in your pajamas and get on zoom calls. I wish somebody would be honest about the fact that if you want to achieve big things in your career, you need to get back into an office. Running a company remotely is super hard because running a company itself is really hard. I respect the hell out of a friend of mine who is an asset manager, and she managed money at a big company in New York, and she decided to go and live with her husband in Denver, Colorado. She's a stud. She's super smart. When she did, she sat down with the CEO of the company and said, hey, I know that me doing this is going to limit my forward progress. And he was like, it is. This is how far you can go in this role without you being in the office with a bunch of other people and running a big team. And she said, I'm cool with that. I want to prioritize my family. That's amazing. Let's not lie to ourselves about how you can have it all. You can have it all, but not at the same time. Just about.
