Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think she's clueless at best, and an out of touch rich bitch ay worst. Dumb move. She and Yahoo are destined to fail.

Thank you for this insightful addition to the discussion.

You're welcome. She is an extremely wealthy, entitled, pampered person who cannot and clearly does not understand how real employees struggle with work-life balance. She's basically outed Yahoo as a non-family friendly company. On top of being horribly behind their competitors and utterly not innovative, this is not a good move for Yahoo. Again, she will fail, and I will enjoy the schadenfreude immensely.

By expecting her employees to come into work? I think not. I think it's a good way to get employees, who may have disconnected from work, to come in and reconnect. Maybe later she will allow people to work from home again but I think she needs to get everyone in so they can network and run through ideas.

It's all well and good for her to demand people start working in the office. I mean she expects the same of herself. I guess then she'll allow those employees to build their own nursery and bring in their children and childcare providers to work onsite with them just like she did?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2284828/Marissa-Mayer-brings-baby-personal-nursery-built-office-telling-Yahoo-employees-longer-work-home.html

Her job is to improve shareholder value. It certainly is not to coddle people who worry about "work-life balance."

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think she's clueless at best, and an out of touch rich bitch ay worst. Dumb move. She and Yahoo are destined to fail.

Thank you for this insightful addition to the discussion.

You're welcome. She is an extremely wealthy, entitled, pampered person who cannot and clearly does not understand how real employees struggle with work-life balance. She's basically outed Yahoo as a non-family friendly company. On top of being horribly behind their competitors and utterly not innovative, this is not a good move for Yahoo. Again, she will fail, and I will enjoy the schadenfreude immensely.

Productive depends on what you value. While WAH, my lunch break is me alone, eating, surfing internet. At office, while waiting in line at the cafeteria, I may bump into someone who I needed to run something past,, etc. There is an opportunity cost lost when you are not networking and being seen.

However, when it was budget time or employee performance assessments were due, I needed the uninterrupted time at home to concentrate.

I have people approved for WAH without childcare arrangements. I know they were home with kids. If it isn't ok to bring them to the office, then how can it be ok to WAH without proper care? It is abuses like this that ruin it for others.

My significant other occasionally works from home. This is on weekends/evenings or if an appointment ended near the house after 5 or a flight got in late in the day.

The clear rule in the house is no interaction and one says hello if SO comes into a public area for a beverage, snack, or whatever. Not ever was /is time used for walking the dog, feeding children, driving children, watching children, running errands, dealing with service people on home maintenance.

All of the above activities were common functions of most of my friends who were partial WAHM 's.

I get more done on the rare occasions I work from home.

Sometimes I really can get more done at home if I have a project that needs intense concentration and no distractions, but I would have to work really hard to be productive if I teleworked on a regular basis.

It sounds like from the article that I read that there were lots of slackers at Yahoo! "working from home" but not doing anything. I know people say to just fire the slackers and let other people keep teleworking, but I imagine it's not worth it to have to have management try to assess the productivity of each teleworker. Plus, it's not industry standard in Silicon Valley. Sounds like MM is just doing what needs to be done. It might not be enough to save Y!, but the company surely can't afford to keep policies that are counterproductive if it's going to survive.

When I do go into the office, I am always amazed at how much time is wasted. Coffee breaks, drawn out 'brainstorms' that are really just people saying the same thing to convince themselves they were all involved. Catching up on small talk (the gym, the kids, what they watched the night before). Bathroom breaks take longer bc the smallest room is usually a distance from their desk. Unscheduled calls/stop-ins are disruptive to workflow. I don't know that I'm more productive working from home, but it is certainly not as lopsided as some might think. Like PP, I start earlier and have very little ramp up time. When I sit down, I'm immediatley producing.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's be honest here. When I tell people I'm more productive when I work at home, I'm lying through my teeth. And I think most people are.

+1.

I may be the oddball here, but I really am more productive when working from home without all the interruptions at the office (e.g., people stopping by to chat). Plus, I start cranking out work earlier without being drained from the commute.

Anonymous wrote:Let's be honest here. When I tell people I'm more productive when I work at home, I'm lying through my teeth. And I think most people are.

I know you are. I work 100% of the time in the office, and look down on my coworkers who telecommute regularly.

Anonymous wrote:I think she's clueless at best, and an out of touch rich bitch ay worst. Dumb move. She and Yahoo are destined to fail.

While not nicely stated, yes, I did have similar thoughts. My other was that she has PPD and is making bad decisions based on depression and anxiety.

Anonymous wrote:I think she's clueless at best, and an out of touch rich bitch ay worst. Dumb move. She and Yahoo are destined to fail.

Thank you for this insightful addition to the discussion.

I think she's clueless at best, and an out of touch rich bitch ay worst. Dumb move. She and Yahoo are destined to fail.

Anonymous wrote:Let's be honest here. When I tell people I'm more productive when I work at home, I'm lying through my teeth. And I think most people are.

+1.