“It’s not exactly easy for your new boss to explain the specifics of office politics to you without putting their foot in it, ” she said, declining to be named due to company policy.(Pic shows: A woman works at a laptop computer on the floor as children have a pillow fight in a bedroom in this arranged photograph taken in Bern, Switzerland, on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020. -
JOINING a new company can be tough at the best of times, with bosses to impress, skills to learn and new colleagues to befriend.
But that task becomes a whole lot harder when the “onboarding” is done during a pandemic that has forced millions to work from home, leaving new hires to judge colleagues on their taste in curtains and conduct on Zoom.
