I think the wildest implication is that you're supposed to balk at the raise and yearn for the promotion.

Like, no, I want more money, not more work, thanks.

As much as this is LI garbage and probably LLM slop...

I think it's probably right: from the other side. Shitty management are going to give the raises, promotions and benefits to those who are sucking at their teats of in-office work.

In my experience the guy would have had 6 different managers in those 6 years and endured 24 (6yr x 4q) rounds of layoffs. The promotion will be title and responsibility only with the cost of living outpacing any sort of raise. Oh, and yeah... we're gonna need you to come into the office for that fifth day too and pay for parking/transportation.

In order to actually move up during that 6 years you would have had to change jobs twice.

This reeks of slop

All I'm reading is

• WFH makes workers incredibly productive and happy
• middle managers are unable to make objective decisions about raises and promotions and just go off of vibes
• to resolve point 2, linkedin lunatics think the most reasonable solution is to remove the working conditions that lead to employee satisfaction and extreme productivity rather than recognize the ineptitude of middle management

Not having to see a manager in four months? Where do I sign up?!

Yeah the solution to this problem is "remote first" which to speak the language, also saves a bunch of money on middle managers who lack the object permanence to realise work gets done when they aren't looking

So tldr your job performance doesn't matter in getting the promotion, it's all about sucking up to your boss like a corporate groveling worm.

What a load of crock. Hilariously this worked the opposite way for me. Was working in a medium sized business as the only tech support person. Boss was constantly asking "what do you do all day?" because I'd miss one thing on his task list, even though I was supporting the whole company. Got missed for promotions because "You don't come say hi to the whole office in the morning."

Moved to a fully remote job, started popping up more on the radars of execs because suddenly if they want people to show up to their weird little culture events they have to invite people to them on calendar events, and I can join them since I'm remote and can do my work at the same time as having it up on another monitor. They see my name and face everywhere and start associating me with someone who "shows up to the conversations". I'm remote, do less work faster and happier, and am already interviewing for promotions.

And bonus I can just ignore people's shitty social games, or wait to react to questions or requests until I've had time to think them through, instead of someone walking up to my desk in the middle of an outage and interpreting my stress as unfriendliness.

"Because you finally understood it is not about the work. It is about being present when the decisions are made."

That's where all the quality went! Sucking Up.

I actually hated work from home and my productivity dropped like a rock. Doesnt matter anymore though, the small company was bought by private equity who immediately merged it with a foreign company and started cramming AI into every nook and cranny.

I'm scraping by on cleaning carpets and air ducts now... sure it barely pays a fraction of a software dev salary but I no longer dread having to log in and feign enthusiasm in morning standup meetings anymore :)