West landed the gig at Boeing in August 2021.
Whitehouse started at the company in February and lives about 30 minutes away from the Connecticut outpost. “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.
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.