How Remote Workers Can Compete for In-Person Promotions

In this episode of Remote Work Conversations, Lucas and Luna tackle a quiet anxiety familiar to many distributed employees: how do you compete for a promotion when the decision-maker sits in an office five time zones away? They dig into a concrete case — a senior engineer at GitLab who lost a director role to a less-experienced colleague who happened to work in the same building as the VP. From there they unpack the research on 'proximity tax' (remote workers are 30% less likely to be promoted than hybrid peers, per a 2024 Stanford paper), walk through three structural fixes that companies like Zapier and Buffer have adopted, and offer a tactical playbook for listeners angling for their next title without relocating. No hot takes, no guilt-tripping — just the numbers and the moves. #RemoteWork #Promotions #ProximityBias #GitLab #Zapier #Buffer #DistributedTeams #CareerGrowth #HybridWork #StanfordResearch #WorkFromHome #Careers #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #RemoteCareer #AsyncWork #WorkplaceEquity #ManagerRelationships Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo