Ghost growth in the US: When career advancement becomes a performance, not a promise

Ghost growth describes a growing workplace reality where career advancement exists in name only. Drawing on a 2025 MyPerfectResume survey, the story examines how added responsibilities, hollow titles, and broken promises replace real progress, eroding trust and driving burnout, disengagement, and attrition as workers realise growth has become performance rather than reward.

Ghost growth in the US: When career advancement becomes a performance, not a promise
Ghost growth describes a growing workplace reality where career advancement exists in name only. Drawing on a 2025 MyPerfectResume survey, the story examines how added responsibilities, hollow titles, and broken promises replace real progress, eroding trust and driving burnout, disengagement, and attrition as workers realise growth has become performance rather than reward.