“High performers don’t get promoted, they just get more work,” says employee: 7 reasons why excellence alone won’t move you up

A Reddit post about being “rewarded with more work” instead of a promotion went viral, and the research backs it up. Drawing on studies from Harvard Business Review, Gallup, McKinsey, Textio and Sylvia Ann Hewlett, here are seven reasons why excellence alone rarely secures advancement, from the indispensability trap to invisible feedback gaps and the missing sponsor problem entirely.