Most leaders with hybrid teams will tell you they treat their remote and in-person employees the same. And most of them mean it. The problem is that intention and habit are not the same thing, and one particular habit — shaped by physical proximity — has a way of quietly undermining equity on hybrid teams …
Picture two managers leading similar teams in the same organization. Both are competent. Both deliver results. But when their direct reports are asked whether they plan to stay, the answers look very different. One manager assigns work, monitors progress, and evaluates performance at year-end. The other regularly checks in with a different kind of question: …