What Adam Grant thinks about remote work

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Organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School. Author of Give and Take, Originals, Think Again and Hidden Potential, host of the Re:Thinking podcast, and writer of the GRANTED newsletter.

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1. 22 Jun 2026

   Our readingLeaders' resistance to remote work is driven by a desire for power and status, not by genuine productivity concerns.

   Their wordswhat really drives leaders to resist remote work isn't productivity concern. It's ego. Ordering people in is a power and status move. Leaders want to be worshiped at the office altar.

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