New research indicates a significant bias among managers against employees who work from home, with many reluctant to offer promotions or pay raises to teleworkers and hybrid workers. The study revealed that managers are less likely to reward remote workers, even when their performance meets expectations. Specifically, full-time teleworkers faced an 11% decrease in promotion likelihood and a 9% decrease in pay raises compared to office-based colleagues. The findings suggest that managers' perceptions, rather than actual performance, drive this bias against remote work arrangements.
Our findings reveal that hybrid workers face poorer career prospects than office-based workers, because managers perceive them as under-performing.
Managers perceive teleworkers as lacking commitment, which negatively impacts their likelihood of promotion and pay raises, even with equivalent performance.
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