You know that thing about the answer to any headline that’s a question being almost always “No”?

I’ve been fully remote for 17 years and, before that, did short periods of remote work as early as 2003.

The first junior I remember being onboarded remotely (into an irc-mostly, voice call for ultra rare cases job) was me and it worked pretty well.

From about 2010 to 2012 I grew the support team of a database services company from 2 to about 20 people (the 2 at the start was counting me). A lot of the new hires were junior when it came too dabatases, some just junior period, and it worked great too.

There were some in person meetings but the vast majority of onboarding and training happened remotely.

Maybe people invested in office real estate are perhaps biased to get the wrong answer on this one.

If I had time now, I’d write an article titled “is the FT right about the cause of weak junior hiring?”

I don’t have time, but you can apply that saying about headlines to my imaginary article.