Should Workers Be Able to Telecommute?
Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer says no.
While transportation managers and ecologists praise the work-at-home movement for its fuel savings, Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer says it is hurting creativity. Mayer, whose company helped pioneer the concept of having the world of information at your fingertips, is now ordering those fingers to come to the office fulltime by June. Mayer joined Yahoo! last April. She set an example against working from home by taking only two weeks of maternity leave after giving birth to her first child, son Macallister Bogue, on Sept. 30. She shocked some by saying that raising her first child was "easy." Now she's cracked the whip for Yahoo's 14,000 employees, saying they are missing the creativity and water cooler collaboration that comes with working in an…
Ron Goodenow
6:53 pm on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
You're correct, and it is entirely possible that she discovered there really was no coherent telecommuting policy and people worked at home or offsite willy nilly. Or that the policy, as is, was so utterly inefficient or wasting of resources that they have to start over, which is very expensive to do. Its a tremendous gamble. Most large organizations cannot be turned on a dime. I would be very … more ›