News: Yahoo work-from-home policy riles workers everywhere

[zinfamous]

But Trump thinks the new CEO is doing a great job and supports the policy! I think that says more about Trump than it does Yahoo's CEO.

Trump's "wealth" exists as debt. No one should ever listen to what he has to say.

 

[Phokus]

You mean like all the other "power tripping" ceo's that have allowed work from home use to rise at an enormous rate over the past decade?

Obviously not all of them share her views.

Their power tripping manifest itself in different ways. I used to work for IBM, they have a lot of full time work from home people, of course the CEO's see US employees as expensive nuisances and is famous for outsourcing far more than other companies. It's the only white collar job where i've seen where a union was trying to get employees to join them.

 

[bozack]

Personally I find Mayer's actions to be extremely hypocritical and indicative of management that doesn't trust their staff to perform when not supervised. Very short-sighted IMO.

She's also said before that her family is priority and all that jazz. She had a nanny room built next to her office so she could have her baby there with her, but then turns around and takes away flexible work hours for employees and yanks their ability to work from home. I'm very happy I don't work for her, she seems like hypocritical scum.

Couldn't have said it better myself, sadly I find this getting to be more and more common (management hypocrisy and distrust)

It will sound wrong and some will bitch, but I just don't think she is experienced enough to be put in this kind of a role and it is showing with her actions.

 

[nageov3t]

I always love the double standard on it.

plumbing emergency in the morning? "aww, you really can't make it into the office in the afternoon?"

on my deathbed from the blue? "aww, you really can't just work from home instead of calling out sick?"

 

[Dari]

I read somewhere that stay-at-home workers are less likely to get promoted...

 

[Gamingphreek]

Some arrogant posts here.... since when are workers entitled to work from home??

Also last I checked Yahoo's shares are trading at a 1 year high and trending towards breaking a 5 year high. Looks like she is doing a good job to me...

 

[nageov3t]

I read somewhere that stay-at-home workers are less likely to get promoted...

I believe it.

my boss used to be based out of our Mountainview office, with me in NYC... basically felt like I was out in the wilderness with a boss who was barely aware I existed.

after he got fired and his replacement was hired in the NYC office where I am, it's like night and day in terms of being given more responsibility, training, etc.

 

[Veliko]

Some arrogant posts here.... since when are workers entitled to work from home??

Who has even hinted that they are entitled to do so?

Also last I checked Yahoo's shares are trading at a 1 year high and trending towards breaking a 5 year high. Looks like she is doing a good job to me...

What's this got to with the story?

Plenty of other companies allow people to work from home, and they've been smashing the shit out of Yahoo for years.

 

[Veliko]

I agree with Mayer.

We had an employee who was able to work from home

Jesus wept.

So because of this one, solitary example of an unproductive employee, you think that being able to work from home is a bad thing...?

 

[Genx87]

Some arrogant posts here.... since when are workers entitled to work from home??

I don't believe anybody said workers are entitled to. Simply that sticking unproductive workers in cubicles doesn't make them productive. Thus this policy is backwards thinking for a supposedly tech savy CEO.

Also last I checked Yahoo's shares are trading at a 1 year high and trending towards breaking a 5 year high. Looks like she is doing a good job to me...

And so is the stock market.

 

[zsdersw]

I don't believe anybody said workers are entitled to. Simply that sticking unproductive workers in cubicles doesn't make them productive. Thus this policy is backwards thinking for a supposedly tech savy CEO.

This.

And so is the stock market.

So, you mean stock price alone isn't a good way to judge how a company is doing? /sarcasm

 

[dmcowen674]

Yahoo is not the only Company doing this.

All CEO's were told to get people back on the road to bolster new Car sales, Oil and Gasoline consumption in the U.S.

 

[zsdersw]

Yahoo is not the only Company doing this.

Yahoo is probably the only one eliminating all remote working, though.

 

[sze5003]

I enjoy working from home once every other week. I save time, gas , and am wake up not as early since I don't have to drive in. I find that I do more when I work from home and work later because I have no distractions or anyone coming to bother me.

 

[Texashiker]

Yahoo is probably the only one eliminating all remote working, though.

Best Buy is following yahoo.

 

[Genx87]

Best Buy is following yahoo.

Another flailing company.

 

[Dulanic]

Another flailing company.

Pretty much LOL, one failing company after another. However, this isn't a firm 100% must be situation with best buy. At least they did say that managers can override this policy in a case by case policy.

 

[K1052]

I work from home one day a week mainly because there is always a day where there is literally nothing going on and I'm just catching up on background shit. This does not require my ass to be physically seated in my chair at work. We have several other employees on flexible schedules who sometimes work remotely as well with no ill effect.

Blanket policies are stupid.

 

[K1052]

Best Buy is following yahoo.

Right down the shitter.....

 

[Linux23]

That's the leadership Universal answer to problems these days. Put out a blanket policy or law no matter if it affects the good or the bad employees or citizens. Sad really. And they make millions of dollars to come up with these policies that a chimp could make.

 

[zsdersw]

Best Buy is following yahoo.

Yup, and things at Best Buy couldn't be better. /sarcasm

 

[Darwin333]

Development jobs that require group collaboration will definitely benefit from face to face interaction in the office...

Support roles where individuals handle and trouble shoot issues on their own wont matter if they are on site or working remote.

Trying to apply a blanket policy to a company that has both of these types of roles is ridiculous.

In this day and age where I can collaborate with multiple people across the globe in real time via something as simple as Skype I must assume that a tech company like Yahoo has a much better system for virtual "face to face". I ask this because I truly do not know, is it really that much more productive to physically be in an office together versus the myriad of other solutions for video conferencing and online collaboration?

Hell, I use online tools at the office to collaborate with someone who is quite literally 15' away from me. All changes are updated in real time which is absurdly easier than anything else I know of besides us being in the same office using a white board or something (which wouldn't be very productive in my line of work).

 

[Gunslinger08]

Honestly, businesses should see telecommuting as a good thing. You don't need a dedicated space for each employee anymore. Work out a rotating schedule for desks with docking stations or just have a casual policy with "hotel desks" where employees can come in when they feel they need to. Instead of maintaining an office for 1000 workers, maintain an office with 100 desks and 10 conference rooms. Save yourself money on rent/utilities/maintenance/office supplies.

There's no need for people to be in the office most of the time. "Collaboration" typically means pointless, boring meetings where a lot of time is wasted. When you really do need collaboration (ex. design/architecture meetings for projects), use voice/video chat or have everyone come into the office that day.

 

[Phanuel]

You'd think this, but I work for one of the designers of telecommunication hardware/software and pretty much only sales people and marketing people are allowed to work from home. The rest of us peons have to show up every day.

 

[Double Trouble]

There is definitely value in having people actually at work, in person. There is also value in providing flexibility for your employees so they can be productive and retain their home/life balance.

The key is balance, blanket policies for/against make no sense.