Promotion Prospects

For office workers, 5.6% of full-time and hybrid workers received a promotion in 2023, compared to 3.9% for fully remote employees, with no difference in promotion rates between hybrid and full-time. Relatedly, female software engineers at Fortune 500 firms who worked in the same building as their teammates received 40% more feedback on their code than engineers who didn’t share offices. The gap was 18% for remote male engineers.