The War Over Work From Home: The Data CEOs And Workers Need To Know

Many CEOs still have “executive nostalgia” about a model that worked for them years ago. “There’s still this big CEO echo chamber aspect of it,” Elliott says.Elliott notes that while the impact of remote work on less experienced workers is a genuine concern, research like Harrington’s also shows that distributed teams—groups of employees who physically work in an office but in different buildings—can suffer from the same fate. “It’s not just because it's potentially harder [to mentor people] remote,” he says. “It's because we have lousy systems for mentorship and development in the first place, and especially for younger workers.”