42% of hybrid workers say they come to the office not because the work requires it, but because being seen there matters. Passive face time bias does not just shape perceptions. It shapes careers.
The question the research raises but does not fully answer: are leaders shaped by their traits, or shaped by the demands of their roles? The answer changes everything about how organizations invest in developing people.
Organizations keep asking how to retain top talent while running systems that systematically erode what made those people exceptional in the first place. The research has been available since 1999.