Flatiron School, which claims to be the oldest operating coding bootcamp, announced this week it’s redesigning its courses and lectures for a future in which companies increasingly allow their employees to work from the office or remotely.
Coding bootcamps are generally unaccredited programs teaching students skills they need to switch careers or progress in their jobs. For New York’s Flatiron School, which was founded in 2012 and acquired by the coworking space company WeWork in 2017, that includes programs in software development, data science, product design and analytics. The institution’s primary goal is to place students in jobs directly after graduation, and how those jobs operate completely changed because of the pandemic, CEO Adam Enbar told EdScoop.
The school is mirroring tech companies like Salesforce and Google, which are adopting hybrid policies in which employees can do work in-person or remotely. That’s different from how higher education institutions are approaching their returns to campus, where leaders are only truly considering hybrid work in terms of staff, not students, Enbar said.