Emma Grede

I see nine times out of 10, let's say that she has kids, right?

All of a sudden they've decided in their family, she doesn't need childcare that day.

So not only is this woman working from her living room table, but she's then got to go and pick up the kids and look after her kids, which means that she isn't getting ahead and doing what she needs to do and putting her energy into the work.

Listen, if you choose to work from home, that is your choice.

But if you think that you're still considered for the same promotions and the same pay increases as somebody who's sitting in the office, you're kidding yourself.

And if you don't like to hear that, then that's on you.

That's not for me to sugarcoat it.

That's just what it is.

And I honestly think that the reason people got so upset about that is because it's convenient to work from home.

It's actually really like quite nice to, you know, do a Zoom call in your slippers.

But it doesn't, it's not congruent with building a big career.

Building a big career is not for everyone.

But if you're ambitious and if you have a big idea of what you want to do in your life, work from home isn't going to help you get there.

I found it incredibly refreshing.

Well, a lot of people did, but, you know, not enough, apparently.

It is a myth.

It's a myth?

Yeah, because we have seasons in our life, you know, and I know that if I kind of chart my life back to sort of my late teens when I really sort of started working in an office place to now I'm in my early 40s,

There's moments and seasons for things.

And so what I'm saying with that is that you get all of the things that you want, but not all at the same time.