Mayer Terminates Yahoo's Remote Employee Policy 524
An anonymous reader writes "AllThingsD's Kara Swisher reported and tweeted that Marissa Mayer (CEO since July 2012) has just sent an all-hands email ending Yahoo's policy of allowing remote employees. Hundreds of workers have been given the choice: start showing up for work at HQ (which would require relocation in many cases), or resign. (They can forget about Yahoo advice pieces like this). Mayer has also been putting her stamp on Yahoo's new home page, which was rolled out Wednesday."
Re:bullet in the head (Score:5, Funny)
The meetings will continue until something gets done around here.
Re:At you desk! (Score:4, Funny)
Youire a genious.
Re:bullet in the head (Score:3, Funny)
telecommuting cuts down communication by a lot.
As far as I'm concerned, that's its killer feature.
Re:She should watch this Ted Talk (Score:4, Funny)
Totally disagree
I work remotely but go to the office as well. It's the only place to trade pirated movies via sneaker net, check out cool YouTube videos people are watching, hit the snobby coffee place with the single brew snobby coffee
Am I forgetting anything?
Obligatory Dilbert post (Score:5, Funny)
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-09-15/ [dilbert.com]
Re:At you desk! (Score:5, Funny)
You have to give these managers more credit: They are really trying to do the best they can: Having no skills themselves, the only reasonable metric is time spent at work! And Mayer reputedly excels at this. If a remote employee stares out the window, they are definitely not at work in that moment, while a non-remote employee doing the same thing is! So, from their perspective they are clearly boosting productivity.
Just to make sure nobody misunderstands me:
- Time is an unsuitable productivity metric for knowledge workers.
- Working long hours is well known to massively decrease productivity due to significant increases in mistakes and wrong decisions.
- The Dunning-Kruger effect is a lot more pronounced in "leadership" positions as these people often manage to effectively discourage honest feedback.
Re:If I were in her shoes (Score:4, Funny)
For new spiffy pages, new spiffy URLs. Yes folks, you can have a DIFFERENT URL for new content. Funny how Mayer spent so much time in the biz and doesn't know that.
She's an executive. She doesn't need to know those things. She has people who take care of that.
Re:I might be old fashioned (Score:5, Funny)
When you work from home, you miss a lot of scuttlebutt, impromptu meetings, and hallway chats that electronic communications just don't make up for.
Yeah, but there are also downsides to working from home.
Re: At your desk! (Score:5, Funny)
Managers are like dogs, all the way up to the executive level. When they enter a new area, they mark their territory by pissing all over everything.
Re:bullet in the head (Score:5, Funny)
I was once dragged on to a "tiger team" to solve an emergency problem that had sprung up.
They called us in for a kick-off meeting at 8am, and during the meeting they decided that we would have a 9am meeting every day to determine our progress.
The kickoff meeting ran until 9am, at which point the boss transitioned the kick-off meeting into the daily status meeting, and when we reported that we had not made any progress (because we were still in the kick-off meeting), berated us for our lack of progress.