Lack of 'face time' could hold back employees in spite of growth of flexible working, London Business School finds 

(Sept. 7, London /HR Magazine) Research from London Business School has shown that a lack of ‘face time’ may stifle their chances of promotion. In the 10 years they have been researching the topic, London Business School's Daniel Cable and Kimberly Elsbach from the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), reported that the rewards for employees using "non-traditional" working arrangements were fewer when compared to their desk-bound peers.

  Remote working arrangements have shown that they can be beneficial both to employees and organisations. But from the perspective of hundreds of corporate workers, including both managers and subordinates, when assessing the leadership traits and dependability, the difference is passive face time.

  Passive face time refers merely to being seen in the workplace, regardless of what you are doing or how well you are doing it. Particularly in white-collar environments, the authors assert, the presence or absence of passive face time may be used to influence the fitness of employees for certain tasks, such as leadership.

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