How Remote Work Is Affecting Career Development

The shift to remote work has created new challenges for career advancement that many professionals haven't yet adapted to address.   While remote work offers flexibility, it can inadvertently diminish professional visibility among decision-makers.   Strategic Remote Visibility Approaches: • Proactive Communication Rhythms: Establishing regular touchpoints with supervisors and cross-functional leaders • beyond standard project updates to maintain relationship continuity • Cross-Departmental Engagement: Actively participating in initiatives that showcase capabilities to leaders outside immediate reporting structures • Strategic Meeting Participation: Contributing meaningfully to discussions rather than passive attendance, ensuring your voice and perspective are recognized • Impact Documentation and Sharing: Systematically communicating achievements and progress to stakeholders who influence advancement decisions • Virtual Relationship Building: Investing in informal connections through virtual coffee meetings and team engagement opportunities   Remote professionals who successfully advance understand that physical absence requires intentional relationship and visibility management strategies.   The challenge isn't just performing excellent work remotely, but ensuring that performance is consistently visible to those who make advancement decisions.   Organizations often default to promoting professionals who are most present in their awareness, making deliberate visibility cultivation essential for remote career progression.   This doesn't require artificial self-promotion, but rather strategic communication that keeps your contributions and capabilities front-of-mind for leadership.   What remote visibility strategies have you found most effective for maintaining career momentum?   Sign up to my newsletter for more corporate insights and truths here: https://lnkd.in/ei_uQjju   #deepalivyas #eliterecruiter #recruiter #recruitment #jobsearch #corporate #remotework #careeradvancement #professionalvisibility #careerstrategist

Remote work is killing career growth for ambitious professionals under 30. As someone who’s built and managed businesses before and after remote work became the norm... I think you miss 3 critical growth opportunities that can only happen in person. First, you lose the power of shadowing. Some of my best leaders learned their most valuable skills by simply being in the room. When I was coming up, I watched how senior executives handled tough negotiations, managed conflicts, and made high-stakes decisions under pressure. You can't replicate that experience on Zoom. Second, you miss real-time performance calibration. In an office, you see what excellence actually looks like. You notice that top performers operate at a completely different level of intensity. When you're remote, you compare yourself only to yourself - not to the true standard of excellence in your industry. Third, spontaneous learning moments vanish. Those impromptu hallway conversations, quick feedback sessions, or insights shared over lunch? They simply don't happen in scheduled meetings. I'd love if a junior marketer at Samcart sent me this message: "I know I live in Atlanta, but can I fly up to DC and just work with you? Can we get a WeWork for a week?" That's the best Slack message any founder/owner could get. It shows initiative and understanding that nothing replaces being in-person because that’s where they’ll grow the most. So what can you do if you're young and working remotely? Create visibility for your work without being obnoxious. - Don't just deliver results, share your thinking process. - Don't just hit deadlines, exceed expectations visibly. Your career advancement depends on both capability AND perception. In a remote environment, you must consciously create opportunities that used to happen naturally in person. Your growth won't happen by accident anymore if you’re working remotely, you have to engineer it deliberately.

The best coaches guide you *and* give you tools and time to practice on your own. Rocky had a great coach—and he spent time running those stairs solo. The same can be true for how we think about driving growth for employees in hybrid work environments. Coaching/development is another one of the biggest questions leaders have about hybrid and remote work—“How can I be sure people are growing if they aren’t learning by watching others?” It is a reasonable question. The challenges of creating effective mentorships in a remote setting are clear: 61% of employees feel remote work limits their development opportunities, and 35% are less likely to seek mentorship (Harvard Business Review & Wellable). With intentional strategies, however, growth doesn’t need to take a backseat in hybrid workplaces: 🚀Launch official, yet flexible mentorship programs.  While the ‘learn by watching’ approach is ok, it’s even better when we intentionally match mentors/buddies who feel accountable for helping someone grow. Make the matches official, set goals for meetings, and then let people decide when and how they connect. People may choose to meet in an office, over coffee, or on a phone call. The location matters less than the intention. (Yes, it’s even ok if people paired together aren’t in the same location!) To get them started, you can offer suggested topics to guide discussions. 🦾Introduce AI leadership coaches.  AI-driven coaches can offer personalized, 24/7 support, helping with growth on both in-office and remote days. At @Rising Team, we’ve built aRTi, our personalized AI Leadership Coach that combines science-backed best practices with unique insights about each individual from their Rising Team sessions. It means you can always get advice from someone who knows you and your team, even if you are remote.  🪜Encourage career vision discussions.  Help employees outline long-term career goals and then connect near-term projects to their future aspirations. Once they understand how the projects they are working on today fill gaps they have towards their longer-term goals, people become much more energized. They create their own Rocky “stair-running” moments where they don’t need a coach to help them make progress. Overcoming development challenges in a hybrid setting happens most effectively when people are given the right tools and environment to grow on their own—kind of like a flower in a pot. When we provide the right soil, water, and light conditions, people are able to thrive both with support and on their own. For more ideas on managing teams in a hybrid work environment, download Rising Team’s’ free eBook on Maximizing Hybrid Work Success: https://lnkd.in/g9ditxXA #HybridWork #EmployeeDevelopment — This is the third post in a series on maximizing success in hybrid and distributed work. Check back on Wednesday for more insights on team building and connection in hybrid work environments.

💻 Remote work is quietly killing early careers. Especially for Gen Z. I’m not talking about productivity. I’m not talking about flexibility. I’m talking about growth. Every week, I interview entry-level candidates who work from home. And every week, I hear the same things: “I feel forgotten.” “No one’s mentoring me.” “I want to grow, but I’m stuck.” They’re showing up to Zoom meetings on time… Hitting their KPIs… And getting zero face time with leaders who could change their careers. They don’t get invited to lunch. They don’t overhear strategy convos. They don’t get pulled into side chats that build trust. They just… exist. Alone. In Slack. In silence. It’s no surprise they’re the first ones laid off. There’s no relationship equity. No one’s fighting to keep them. 💡Remote work is great for experts. 💀It’s dangerous for rookies. If you’re just starting your career, get in the room. Shake hands. Build allies. Get noticed. It’ll change everything. Fight for proximity. Your future depends on it.