Culture22 Jul 2026
Hybrid, Three Years On
What the data now says about proximity, trust and promotion velocity in regional organisations.
Three years of promotion data across 38 client organisations lets us separate the arguments about hybrid work from the outcomes.
Proximity still predicts promotion velocity, but far less than it did in 2023, and the effect nearly disappears where performance reviews are calibrated across teams rather than within them.
The variable that matters
It is not days in the office. It is whether a manager has enough structured evidence to argue for someone in a calibration room they do not control.
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