Best Buy Follows Yahoo in Banning Remote Work 317
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from the no-retailing-from-your-garage dept.
bednarz writes "Is telecommuting the new scapegoat for poor performance? Best Buy, in the midst of a corporate restructuring, has canceled its flexible work program and expects corporate employees to put in traditional 40-hour work weeks at the retailer's headquarters (they used to be able to work whenever and wherever they wanted). The announcement comes on the heels of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's decision to end telecommuting, which ignited a firestorm of criticism. It also follows news of Best Buy's plans to lay off 400 corporate workers as part of a plan to cut $725 million in costs and restructure its business. This could signal the beginning of a trend, or be an indication that telecommuters need to actively justify their preference for working outside the office."
Re:Terrible move by a dying entity (Score:5, Funny)
Are you referring to Best Buy or Yahoo?
Re:Terrible move by a dying entity (Score:5, Funny)
Yes
Re:Terrible move by a dying entity (Score:5, Funny)
Agreed. Best Buy is circling the drain. I imagine the reason they are asking folks to come in to the corporate headquarters is because they have to see them in person to lay them off.
I thought the "in" thing these days was to lay people off by email or SMS. Right before Christmas.
Re:As a former Employee (Score:4, Funny)
Seems the tape was red [wikipedia.org] long before they settled on the color.
Re:What firestorm (Score:5, Funny)
She was at Google for a long time. Probably has a heck of a lot of pent up Evil she needs to burn off...
Re:Terrible move by a dying entity (Score:5, Funny)
The didn't implement subfolders because they were slacking at home!
But now that they will be forced to work at their HQ, no user will ever complain anymore!
Re:As a former Employee (Score:5, Funny)
If the peons are so smart, why didn't they have their parents pay them through business school, like I did?
It's laziness like that that keeps them from making something of themselves; but at least it justifies how much more money I make...
Re:As a former Employee (Score:3, Funny)
hey actually had a VP come down one week and tell us we needed to tape yellow lanes on the floor to tell people where to walk and then 3 weeks later another VP came down and made them change it to red tape, then 2 months later another VP came down and wanted all the lines moved because he didn't think it was clear which areas were for walking and which areas were work areas. Ridiculous.
[VP 1]: The red zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the yellow zone.
[VP 2]: No, the yellow zone is for loading of passengers and there is no stopping in a RED zone.
[VP 1]: The red zone has always been for loading and unloading of passengers. There's never stopping in a yellow zone.
[VP 2]: Don't you tell me which zone is for loading, and which zone is for stopping!
[VP 1]: Listen Betty, don't start up with your yellow zone shit again.
[VP 1]: There's just no stopping in a yellow zone.
[VP 2]: Oh really, Vernon? Why pretend, we both know perfectly well what this is about. You want me to have an abortion.
[VP 1]: It's really the only sensible thing to do, if its done safely. Therapeutically there's no danger involved.