No Working From Home for Mayer

~ Laura

Enhanced-buzz-8734-1361770057-3A lot has been written about Marissa Mayer's decision to end the practice of letting Yahoo! workers work from home. I'll write about it tomorrow, but here are some links: Wired, Forbes, Buzzfeed, and Lisa Belkin. 

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5 thoughts on “No Working From Home for Mayer”

  1. This is just so backwards and stupid and silly (eloquent, I know). Working from home isn’t some new crazy fad Yahoo has to contend with. People, especially tech people, have been doing it successfully for a long time. If Mayer wants to create the impression that Yahoo is a stodgy company (or, you know, even more of that impression) that’s her prerogative as its head but good luck attracting top talent in a field that really hasn’t suffered during the recession.

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  2. Yahoo is in a tough place: bleeding slowly, nobody thinks it’s cool anymore. People get jobs there and think, what is my next gig? And, tech people in particular, can think about their next gigs while on the clocks – a second computer for their really GOOD ideas while the first is logged in to the home office. Mayer may well be making the right decision for her company, even if it’s not the direction the rest of the world is trying to go.

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  3. I agree with Dave. It’s true that there might be jobs where working from home. Might be more efficient, but these are jobs with well circumscribed goals and aims. And with folks with long term stakes in the company. For a company in crisis, they may need all hands on deck.

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  4. She doesn’t look evil, but it turns out that appearances of evil have really low sensitivity and only slightly better specificity. I’m sure if Yahoo doesn’t do something, Geocities will eat their lunch.

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  5. Yahoo didn’t just get rid of full-time work from home jobs they got rid of all telecommuting. So those employees who do half-days from home when necessary and people who work a certain number of days at home in conjunction with office work are also out of luck. It’s hard for me to see how this is good for the company. The really good employees will be able to get jobs elsewhere so it’s not like this is just an easy way to get rid of the slackers.
    It’s possible they just want to drastically cut their workforce and think this is the easiest way to do it. They may not really care if they keep they good employees. Good employees are often expensive to keep around anyway.

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