How Remote Workers Get Promoted Without Face Time

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How Remote Workers Get Promoted Without Face Time

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Episode 8 of Remote Work Conversations examines a career puzzle that affects millions of distributed workers: how do you get promoted when your manager rarely sees you in person? Lucas and Luna dig into a 2024 study from Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom that tracked 3,500 employees at a large tech company over two years. The data shows that fully remote workers were promoted at roughly half the rate of hybrid or fully in-office peers — even when performance reviews were identical. But the episode isn't just bad news. The hosts look at counterexamples: a customer-support team at Buffer that designed explicit promotion criteria tied to async contributions, and a product team at Zapier that created a 'visibility rotation' so remote engineers lead weekly demos on a schedule. The conversation lands on practical moves — writing a career progress document, asking for high-visibility async projects, and timing one-on-ones to align with decision cycles. Specific, actionable, and grounded in real numbers. #RemoteWork #CareerProgression #Promotion #StanfordStudy #NicholasBloom #VisibleWork #Buffer #Zapier #AsyncWork #HybridWork #Careers #RemotePromotion #Bias #PerformanceReview #CareerStrategy #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #RemoteWorkConversations Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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