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> It's too easy to misjudge who's accomplishing what if your only input is observing who speaks up the most in meetings, who's the most talkative in Slack, or w
by raffraffraff 5y ago
> It's too easy to misjudge who's accomplishing what if your only input is observing who speaks up the most in meetings, who's the most talkative in Slack, or who spends the most time putting together presentations.
Also if the team is split over timezones and management are only in one of those zones. I've seen members of a remote team get none of the praise nor promotion while a loud person in the right office makes it their business to sell their own brand, and gets promoted continually. I've seen that person get promoted into management, and completely fail to grow the careers of their team members to the point where those team members just leave. From the perspective of higher ups, none of this information makes it out of the team event horizon.