Imagine a world where your manager gauges your productivity by the number of hours you spend at your desk.
Sounds archaic, right? Yet evidence shows that’s exactly how managers who are taught to “manage by walking around” tend to evaluate their employees. This management style, of looking around to see who is working, systematically causes managers to undervalue the productivity of hybrid and remote workers.
The resulting “proximity bias” is the ghost in the machine — the unseen hand pulling managers back to outdated office-centric models, whether in the federal government or in the private sector.
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