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The top dogs of Boeing are living the high life — refusing to relocate
their residences despite the aerospace giant’s push for staffers to return
to the office — and instead commuting via private jet to the company’s headquarters, according to a report.

David Calhoun took over as Boeing’s CEO just before the pandemic, in
January 2020.

Like most of the US workforce, he worked from home at the time between his
two abodes: a sprawling waterfront estate on New Hampshire’s Lake Sunapee,
and another in a gated resort community in Buffalo, SC, according to the
Wall Street Journal.

Flight records reviewed by the Journal showed that Calhoun has taken more
than 400 trips using Boeing’s fleet of private jets. However, not all of
the trips have taken him to Arlington, Va., where Boeing moved its
corporate headquarters from Chicago last May.

Records showed that Calhoun used the company’s private planes to jump
around the US, making stops in California, Texas and multiple places on Florida’s coasts, the Journal found.

Other flights headed toward Berlin, Dublin and Turks and Caicos, according
to the outlet.

Boeing’s board reportedly requires Calhoun to fly on Boeing-supplied
private jets for all business and personal travel for security reasons, so
it’s unclear which of the 400-some private flights Calhoun took were for business purposes.

Meanwhile, Boeing CFO Brian West also hasn’t relocated from his home in
New Canaan, Conn., where the average household income in 2021 was over $214,000, according to US demographic data firm Name Census.

West landed the gig at Boeing in August 2021.

By spring 2023, Boeing opened an office in New Canaan that’s five minutes
from West’s residence, according to the Journal.

However, the new office — which Boeing is leasing for over $100,000 a year
— wasn’t built to accommodate West, but rather to recruit the company’s
new treasurer, David Whitehouse, the Journal reported.

Whitehouse started at the company in February and lives about 30 minutes
from the Connecticut outpost.

Calhoun and West have barely been spotted in Boeing’s Arlington offices
since they opened two years ago, people who have worked there told the
Journal, though there’s been a big push to get lower-ranking staffers to
report in person.

Managers who report to the Arlington headquarters have reportedly been
hosting happy hours, guest speakers and even inviting alpacas into the
office to entice their staff to come in person, though it doesn’t seem to
be working.

“People are pissed they’re being told to get their butts to the office,”
Rich Plunkett, a union official for the Society of Professional
Engineering Employees in Aerospace, told the Journal of Boeing’s
workforce.

Plunkett added that many employees grumble that they’re in the office
doing tasks that could easily be done remotely, while Calhoun gets to stay
at home when he pleases and take private jets to the office on occassion.

Boeing employees in Arlington even seem to make fun of the CEO’s absence, posting wooden “Lake Sunapee” signs in their offices — with one even
drinking out of a Lake Sunapee souvenir mug that read “Love Lake Life” —
in a nod to Calhoun’s lakeside residence, according to the Journal.

Though it’s not unusual for a top executive to live and work away from
their company’s headquarters, Peter Cappelli, a management professor at
the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and author of “The Future
of the Office,” a recent book about remote work, told the Journal that
it’s out of step with current messaging from corporate America, which encourages employees to return to the office.

“If you want people to come back and you’re not doing it, that really undermines the message,” Cappelli added.

A Boeing spokesperson told The Post: “We have been transforming our
leadership culture to encourage our management team to engage more
frequently with employees, customers and other stakeholders. It’s why we
moved senior leaders out of our Chicago office and closer to their teams
three years ago, and why we continue to empower them to spend less time at corporate headquarters and more time with employees and stakeholders.”

The spokesperson insisted that increased flexibility allows its workforce
to be “most productive and supportive of our global business.”

“We’re pleased that this approach has allowed us to attract top talent
across disciplines as we continue to execute our recovery plans.”

Though some positions require full-time attendance, about 30% of recent
job postings shared by Boeing were for hybrid or entirely remote
positions.

Boeing’s website shows 128 open job positions in Arlington, Va., most of
which require candidates to be able to report to an office.

https://nypost.com/2023/09/11/boeing-execs-refuse-to-relocate-instead- taking-private-jets-to-work-report/?dicbo=v2-rN7vLE1

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