FLASHBACK TO 2019:
"...Scharf, who three years ago left the top spot at San Francisco-based Visa Inc. to rejoin his family on the East Coast, made staying in New York a prerequisite to taking the Wells Fargo job. He’ll run the $2-trillion lender about 3,000 miles away from its San Francisco headquarters and make an already spread-out operating committee even more dispersed.
"The decision to appoint a remote CEO raises questions about how important proximity is in a modern workplace, and whether a management team sprinkled across the country will face more issues enacting a turnaround than one sharing the same hallway. On Scharf’s introductory investor call, the second question was about his location, following only one query on whether the bank needs a broad overhaul.
"'Whether it’s the Wells Fargo job or any other job I had, you spend very little time actually in your office,' Scharf said Friday on the call. 'I don’t think anyone would ever say in the places I’ve worked that I’ve not been present. I think it’s just the opposite.'
"'We can’t help but think that Wells Fargo struggled to attract top talent for this position, and perhaps a compromise on the location of the CEO post was necessary in order to recruit Mr. Scharf,' Citigroup Inc. analyst Keith Horowitz wrote in a note to clients Friday."
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-10-01/wells-fargos-new-york-ceo-fuels-questions-over-west-coast-base