The idea that you can make up for being remote by being proactive proves the counterpoint. You seem to be a top performer— the kind of person that someone high

The idea that you can make up for being remote by being proactive proves the counterpoint. You seem to be a top performer— the kind of person that someone higher up but perhaps not directly related to you -would pull to the side and have you work on something more important, if you were in the office, because the office is where non-organizational-chart-directed-actions take place. It can even be as simple/stupid as an idiot in a suit asking “are you good at computers” while in an elevator. You fix their idiotic excel problem that they could have googled, then you end up in charge of some thing they want to build. I understand that this represents a bit of disfunction - but I believe this is reality.