The New Office Reality

Here's the new reality about officing:

• At a major industry player, senior real estate portfolio managers share offices, alternating days when they work from home.
• At another company, the head of acquisitions works from home on the East Coast, while the chief compliance officer works out of his house in California.
• The head of sales and marketing at a third advisor works from a home office in Atlanta.

We're not talking here about itinerant sales people and always on the move consultants or freelancers and sole proprietors. All these executives mentioned above are lead managers within their organizations--jobs that would have justified a corner office a generation ago and at the very least a headquarters presence up until recently.