Body of Knowledge · Glossary
Location-neutral
Decision-making and information flows designed so that a team four time zones away has the same access as one down the corridor. In practice that means proposals with comment windows, meetings every location can attend, and decisions published in writing.
Where the standard develops it
- DHWDistributed and Hybrid Work
- CC-3Inclusive practices and equitable opportunity distributionWho gets the stretch work, the visibility, and the benefit of the doubt.
Related terms
- Default gradient
- The tilt of a distributed organisation toward wherever its decision-makers sit.
- Proximity bias
- Opportunity and promotion going to the people a leader sees, regardless of performance.
- Affinity bias
- Favouring people who resemble oneself in evaluation.
- Glue work
- The coordinating, documenting and unblocking work that holds a team together and rarely shows up in the artifacts a promotion process values.
- Office housework
- Necessary, low-visibility tasks such as notes, scheduling and cover, which fall along predictable and inequitable lines unless they are distributed deliberately.
Cite this definition
Chicago, BibTeX and licence →Engineering Management Academy. (2026). Location-neutral. In Engineering Management Academy Body of Knowledge (Version 3.1, GLO.location-neutral). https://www.engineeringmanagement.academy/body-of-knowledge/glossary/location-neutral