What Yahoo's no work from home policy means
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#2Am I the only one who isn't that outraged by this?
I'm as big of a proponent for remote workers as anyone (I basically quit my last job over it), but it makes a lot of sense for yahoo in this case.
1. They're regrouping, reorganizing and refocusing their vision. All of which are much easier to do in person.
2. The group buy-in that she needs to shift Yahoo's culture, product and focus is much easier to get when they're all in one centralized location.
3. Remote workers count for a fraction of their workforce? It's not like it's going to be a massive change for 50%+ of their workforce. They're just getting the few remoters back in house.
Like I said, I'm a big proponent of remote working, but this seems a little overblown to me.
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#3Am I the only one who isn't that outraged by this? I'm as big of a proponent for remote workers as anyone (I basically quit my last job over it), but it makes a lot of sense for yahoo in this case. 1. They're regrouping, reorganizing and refocusing their vision. All of which are much easier to do in person. 2. The group buy-in that she needs to shift Yahoo's culture, product and focus is much easier to get when they'…
Well, just look at the headline. Someone just wants to stand out with their 'assessment'. It's an attempt at journalism which ends up yellow.
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#4Spoken like a true individual contributor.
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#5Looks like a great way to reduce headcount without saying the dreaded layoff word.
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#6Of course Mayer doesn't trust the management structure. What is the point of bringing in a new CEO if they're just going to "trust the management structure"?
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#7The author is director at a company specializing in remote presence hardware and software. Of course he's going to disparage any company that cuts remote working.
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#8I know we need to measure good workers versus bad workers, but I also find it hard to get too enraged by this (despite having been a remote worker for some time). The problem as I see it is: everybody has at some point run into the a double points bad worker who is also a remote worker, and it tends to be memorable. Mine was the remote support woman who never answered her emails and didn't want to give out her personal number. As I said, it sticks in you memory.
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#9The author is director at a company specializing in remote presence hardware and software. Of course he's going to disparage any company that cuts remote working.
Specializing in remote presence hardware and software gives the author insight into the remote working industry and how Marissa's move affects said industry. So of course he's going to have something to say (disparaging or not).
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#10Am I the only one who isn't that outraged by this? I'm as big of a proponent for remote workers as anyone (I basically quit my last job over it), but it makes a lot of sense for yahoo in this case. 1. They're regrouping, reorganizing and refocusing their vision. All of which are much easier to do in person. 2. The group buy-in that she needs to shift Yahoo's culture, product and focus is much easier to get when they'…
My beef with the move is its hypocrisy. Disregarding remote workers in a remote world? At a company peddling tools that facilitate... (get ready for it)... remote work!? Sometimes this ish doesn't even seem real.