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I 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 person…
Am 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.
Yahoo's not in a place right now where remote working makes sense for them. Prescribing remote work arrangements across the board for all companies in all situations makes as little sense as prescribing required in-office hours for all companies in all situations.
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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.
It facilitates (read: enables) remote working. Their tools don't require it. Yahoo's not in a place right now where remote working makes sense for them. Prescribing remote work arrangements across the board for all companies in all situations makes as little sense as prescribing required in-office hours for all companies in all situations.