Define: "Proximity Bias" in Business
Multi-headcount capital waste
"If you work remote, make sure your name is attached to every successful high-visibility deployment. Force them to see your work."
The unconscious tendency to favor employees who are physically closer or more visible in the office environment.
What does "Proximity Bias" actually mean?
"The Director promoting the guy who laughs at his jokes in the breakroom over the senior engineer who actually keeps the network online from his home lab."
"Management training this quarter will focus on identifying and mitigating Proximity Bias in hybrid teams."
"Mandatory RTO policies are just institutionalized Proximity Bias designed to justify the commercial lease."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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