# Top earners are increasingly isolated at work – here’s why it matters
**Date de l'événement :** 05/03/2025
* Publié le 05/03/2025

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Nike’s current CEO, Elliott Hill, began his career at the global footwear giant as an intern fresh out of university, steadily making his way up the ranks.  

By Hill’s own telling, when he began as a sales intern in Tennessee in 1988, he packed boxes in the warehouse and answered office phones when needed. Ambitious and loyal, he climbed the corporate ladder, until in September 2024 he was coaxed out of retirement to be made president and CEO of the footwear maker.  

This sort of career progression – from mailroom to boardroom, from factory floor to C-suite –sounds like the stuff of fiction, fantasy, or at least of the distant past. People today don’t stay at jobs for decades, as Hill did, as companies are often sold, restructured, split and reorganised instead.  

Crucially, workplaces are also increasingly divided along income lines, potentially preventing a humble intern from ever interacting with high-level executives. This has damaging consequences for social mobility, cohesion and equality.

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## Auteur(s)
Marta M. Elvira, Olivier Godechot

### Date
05/03/2025

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