Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's bans telecommuting
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| I saw this last night and was very surprised. There is speculation that they hope people will resign rather than relocate or give up telecommuting, which would reduce the number of potential layoffs. I don't think it's about family balance, but general work-life balance. I started telecommuting long before I had kids. Even working from home one day a week greatly increased my productivity and happiness. I'll be watching this with great interest. |
Anonymous
| It's said by Fast Company now that this was a feint in order to get unproductive employees to quit- they are on a path to downsize/rightsize and have a lot of employees who they hope will jump ship due to the new culture. |
Anonymous
Wow, the irony. |
Anonymous
I don't think they will lose the unproductive folks, I think it will be the really good people who find jobs at better work environments. I think this move is going to kick her in the ass. |
Anonymous
| Desperate moves to right a sinking ship. |
Anonymous
| Not that big of a deal, *if* they now offer more flexible "in-person" work schedules. |
Anonymous
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I think it is a move to layoff remote employees without having to take the hit against their unemployment insurance. This greatly impacts people who do not work near a Yahoo office.
It's a coporate maneuver to screw the worker to try to salvage their sinking ship. Nothing new. |
Anonymous
| She "worked from home" to take a shorter maternity leave, no? |
Anonymous
Apparently there are a lot of people who WFH there and are extremely unproductive. She is trying to make sure the productive people still have a company to pay them.... |
Anonymous
That is due to poor management, not because of telecommuting. It is possible to have productive employees who telecommute. |
Anonymous
Her maternity leave was 2 weeks! That's pretty darn short. She also built a nursery next to her office at Yahoo, an opportunity available to .01% of the work force. |
Anonymous
| Well obviously too many are spending too much time on SFUM... |
Anonymous
| As a FT WOTH mom of 2 kids, I kind of hate her. I think that there are much more legitimate ways to get rid of unproductive employees that wouldn't affect those who telecommute and do a good job. I try to telecommute once a week and my office is pretty good about letting me do that. We maybe moving about 20 minutes farther away from my office in downtown DC than we live now (inside the beltway silver spring) and if that happens I plan to ask my boss if I can work remotely as the rule, and make my days in the office more the exception and if they say no I will look for work elsewhere. The idea of people all having to be in the office to be productive is so shorsighted and old fashioned, and for a new mom to come up with that policy just reeks of desperation. |
Anonymous
Sure. But a lot depends on the employee. Management can only do so much. A slacker office worker is going to be an even bigger slacker when telecommuting. |