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

Top leaders get to live a plane ride away from the office at a time when many employees are seeing less flexibility than before. — Photo by Shridhar Gupta on Unsplash

For Starbucks Corp, its primary home is Seattle.

Yet its freshly minted chief executive officer isn’t living in the same city or even state as its headquarters – an emerging trend of top leaders living a plane ride away at a time when many employees are seeing less flexibility than before.