I think the notion of a CEO doing all the things their workers do purely out of solidarity to be shallow and condescending. Obviously his job is different from theirs and he is going to have a different set of rules. And I doubt any of them would want to put in the number of hours he puts in. He's clearly a workaholic.
Showing up late to an all-hands meeting of thousands of employees is wasting thousands of hours of peoples' time. I don't care how important you think his time is that's not going to add up to a rational choice
My point is, gestures like "you're coming into the office, so I'm coming into the office" are simultaneously empty and counterproductive. His job involves travel, period. And besides, he owns the place.
While thousands were losing their jobs, he was a social event in NYC. Not working, at least not by most definitions of the word.
I don’t expect my CEO to do everything I do. I do expect her to be present and actively communicating with staff during a massive layoff. I do expect her to respect the time of thousands of employees by being timely to meetings she called. I do expect to hear about my job status from a living person, not a batch email sent to my PERSONAL email address.
