The Return-To-Office Mirage: How Headlines Are Distorting Executive Hiring Reality
As return-to-office mandates dominate business headlines, Shawn Cole argues the real story is being missed—and it’s costing companies access to top leadership talent. In this Forbes article, Cole examines how media-driven assumptions about office-based work are quietly narrowing the executive talent pool, even when roles themselves no longer require a fixed location.
“The return-to-office wave makes for compelling headlines. But in the executive suite, the real story is hybrid, not monolithic,” Cole writes. He outlines how availability bias, not strategic analysis, is influencing hiring committees—and why forward-thinking companies are reframing executive roles around outcomes rather than physical presence. The result, he argues, is a decisive advantage in attracting the leaders who will define the next decade of growth.
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