CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers return to office

Re:CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers retu... by karaterobot on Thursday August 15, 2024 @09:01PM (#41262103)

I think it's more important for CEOs to be located in the same city as the company HQ than it is for any randomly selected employee to be. When VIPs visit the company, they expect the CEO to be present, not on Zoom. Plus, there used to be this thing where leadership had a more than tenuous connection to the legacy and culture of the businesses they ran, and even to the cities their companies were a part of. That's harder to pass off if you can't be bothered to go there. Imagine hearing a CEO say something like "I care about Company X" but they're saying it from a thousand miles away, over a Zoom call, while all their employees are on site and hating being there. That says something about work today.

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Re:CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers retu... by ceejayoz on Thursday August 15, 2024 @09:09PM (#41262144)

They'll be there when the VIPs are.

> Both executives have agreed to commute frequently for their role. Starbucks will allow Niccol to use its corporate plane, and Victoria’s Secret will cover Super’s travel expenses.

They'll probably be ferrying the VIPs on said jet, making a brief appearance, then golf and a fancy dinner.

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Re:CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers retu... by ljm on Thursday August 15, 2024 @09:21PM (#41262216)

‘Commuting’ on a private plane or with all expenses paid.

That is not commuting.

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Re:CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers retu... by codebje on Thursday August 15, 2024 @10:02PM (#41262438)

Guaranteed the time spent doing that is considered work.

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Re:CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers retu... by ohthatsnotright on Friday August 16, 2024 @07:59AM (#41265533)

They checked their email, after all.

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Re:CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers retu... by lazyasciiart on Thursday August 15, 2024 @10:01PM (#41262430)

> Imagine hearing a CEO say something like "I care about Company X" but they're saying it from a thousand miles away, over a Zoom call, while all their employees are on site and hating being there. That says something about work today.

Wow, it's like you've been in our company Zoom calls.

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Re:CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers retu... by CommieBobDole on Thursday August 15, 2024 @10:07PM (#41262468)

A company I once worked for hired a new CEO who lived literally on the other side of the country. He didn't want to move, so they moved the whole company with a couple hundred employees to a new office near his house.

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Re:CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers retu... by invalidlogin on Thursday August 15, 2024 @10:43PM (#41262664)

How did it go?

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Re:CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers retu... by CommieBobDole on Thursday August 15, 2024 @10:52PM (#41262705)

I don't know; it was after I left. I don't think they have the same CEO anymore, but they're still at the new location. Maybe they hired local.

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Re:CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers retu... by ryandrake on Thursday August 15, 2024 @10:47PM (#41262680)

> Imagine hearing a CEO say something like "I care about Company X" but they're saying it from a thousand miles away, over a Zoom call, while all their employees are on site and hating being there.

And they're so insulated from what it's like to be a normal non-Ivy-League rank-and-file worker that they probably don't even know how tone deaf it is. Either they don't know or they know and don't care. They get off the Zoom call and call their chauffeur to drive them to their jet to fly to their third home, thinking just how wonderful a leader they are.

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