I think it started life as a genuine attempt to decide if you personality would fit in somewhere, as in someone from a structured Investment Bank might not thrive in a start up, but it has become code for ‘you are different to us and we don’t like that’.
Which long term weakens organizations...
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I always found BAs highly useful at sitting between the technical and business sides but as you say the job title seems to have fallen out of favour.
Same is happening with Testing at the moment and imminent with Developers with the rise of AI.
i am out the game now so anyone...
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It’s an indicator which would be taken into account with several other factors.
in the days before WFH was a widespread thing I worked at offices that were physically only open from about 0800 to 1800 so you didn’t really have much choice in working hours.
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