This is not an issue of efficiency. Most of the software stack upon which these executives’ companies depend was written remotely by distributed teams. Over di

This is not an issue of efficiency. Most of the software stack upon which these executives’ companies depend was written remotely by distributed teams. Over dial-up. In the 90s. Using CVS. We know how to run efficient distributed organizations. This is a problem primarily with executives who came of age in a marginally digitized world unable to navigate the new fully digital reality. It is the final form of the pointy-haired boomer boss who looks around his physical desk whenever asked to find an icon “on his desktop.”