Skip to navigationSkip to main contentSkip to right columnADVERTISEMENTDan Niepow and Adam ZakiThu, September 3, 2026 at 10:26 AM GMT+2 7 min readThis story was originally published on CFO.com. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily CFO.com newsletter.Six years out from the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, return-to-office mandates don't tend to generate the same attention-grabbing headlines they once did.While some big-name companies continue to roll out strict office attendance policies, many business leaders have come to realize that the way their employees get work done isn't always quite as important as the actual work they produce.Consequently, the way employees work remains in flux across businesses, departments and individuals. But, if given the choice, where are members of the C-Suite working these days primarily?To find out, we posed the following question to a range of finance chiefs: In what physical location do you find yourself being the most productive? We asked a similar question on a LinkedIn poll conducted Aug. 22-29, and the results appeared to reveal a clear preference for working at home. Among the 110 respondents, 50% said that their home office was their most productive spot to work, while about a third (31%) cited their company office.Guy Zeltser, CFO, Hippo Insurance (homeowner's insurance company)"The honest answer is that it depends on the work, and being deliberate about that is the whole point. Convergent work — closing the quarter, pressure-testing an assumption, reading a model until I find the line that's wrong — happens at my desk at home, early, before the day starts. It needs long blocks and no audience. Adding people to that work doesn't improve it.Divergent work is the opposite. Understanding where a growth initiative actually stands, or whether someone on my team is stuck, requires being in the office. Oftentimes, the most useful information I get is unsolicited, and nobody schedules a meeting to tell you they're worried. That happens in a hallway or in the ten minutes after a meeting formally ends.Failure is handing that choice to your calendar, doing deep work in fragments and relationship-building over video."Susan McKeon, CFO and Associate Lab Director, Brookhaven National Laboratory (U.S. Department of Energy lab)"I personally work best in the office. Brookhaven has a hybrid workforce right now. We are in the office four days a week, with one day that can be remote depending on the job. As soon as I was allowed to come back, I was back in the office five days a week.Part of it is because I like the connection to the laboratory site. I like being able to physically talk to people. I don't have the bias that some people do that you're not as effective over Zoom. There have always been international companies that worked very well remotely, even before we had all the tools we have now.Terms and Privacy PolicyEU DSA contactPrivacy & Cookie SettingsMore Info