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Best Buy ends work-from-home program

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Re: Best Buy ends work-from-home program

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Post by vacri »

enraged_camel wrote: post #29
mikescar wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yahoo stock is up from $15 under Scott Thompson to almost $23 with Mayer, so not sure what point you're trying to make. Please, since you are so familiar with the ins and outs of Yahoo, what would you have done differently?

I'm sorry, but are you implying that stock price has anything to do with how well the company is doing? Because it doesn't.

One place I worked at had a stock price that fluctuated. Some times it was 8c, other times it was 16c - we could actually double our stock price and still have to lay people off...

Re: Best Buy ends work-from-home program

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Post by biot »

vacri wrote: post #31
enraged_camel wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sorry, but are you implying that stock price has anything to do with how well the company is doing? Because it doesn't.

One place I worked at had a stock price that fluctuated. Some times it was 8c, other times it was 16c - we could actually double our stock price and still have to lay people off...

I'd be surprised if it were otherwise. The company only makes its money from selling "new" stock. The 8 and 16 cent prices are what people are paying each other for "used" stock, and the company doesn't see a penny from those "used" stock trades.

Re: Best Buy ends work-from-home program

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Post by clobber »

enraged_camel wrote: post #30

Telecommuting is here to stay and it will only become more common as old-school managers who don't understand technology retire/die off are replaced by young workers who grew up with technology.

I really hope so because often times the new simply model themselves after the old - then nothing changes.

Re: Best Buy ends work-from-home program

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Post by jacobr »

yuniu wrote: post #25
tjtrapp wrote: post #24

i don't understand what type of work gets done at home when one works for a retail company like best buy. when i think of best buy, i think of people in blue shirts trying to sell me the latest widget. if i think harder, i can imagine people who have to get stuff on the store shelves and maybe managers who have to create reports or something. what type of jobs are actually "work from home" jobs at retail stores?

Are you really that retarded? Payroll, HR, finance, the website, tech support for in-store systems, planning for growth, product selection, manufacture liaison, operations planning for distribution, legal... Or are you under the impression that Best Buy stores appear out of nowhere, with stock selected and shipped from nowhere with no planning, with staff recruited and paid by nobody, no legal support, no tech suppor…

Payroll, HR, finance, the website, tech support for in-store systems, planning for growth, product selection, manufacture liaison, operations planning for distribution, legal are all jobs that could be done from home.

Fixed that comment for you.

Re: Best Buy ends work-from-home program

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Post by pseudonym »

clobber wrote: post #35
enraged_camel wrote: post #30

Telecommuting is here to stay and it will only become more common as old-school managers who don't understand technology retire/die off are replaced by young workers who grew up with technology.

I really hope so because often times the new simply model themselves after the old - then nothing changes.

I think that while the concept of "working remotely" isn't necessarily ingrained, the concept of communicating efficiently with people via methods that aren't physically face-to-face is extremely embedded in pretty much everyone under the age of 30 at this point.

While it's not a 1:1 correlation, there are going to be a lot more people asking the question "Why am I spending an hour commuting if there's nothing I can do at the office that I can't do from home". Despite a couple companies trying to close the doors after the horses are gone, this particular paradigm isn't going anywhere any time soon.

Re: Best Buy ends work-from-home program

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Post by ok_craig »

waterlesscloud wrote: post #13

So the message is now clear- ending telecommuting is something failing companies do.

Is Yahoo still actively "failing," or is it starting from a point of failure? If a few years from now Yahoo is successful and the move paid off, we will just as easily be able to say: "The message is now clear - ending telecommuting is a great way to help turn around your company." Time will tell. If this is just meant as a knock against yahoo/best buy, if they turn around it could make you eat your words.

Re: Best Buy ends work-from-home program

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Post by shanelja »

jacobr wrote: post #36
yuniu wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you really that retarded? Payroll, HR, finance, the website, tech support for in-store systems, planning for growth, product selection, manufacture liaison, operations planning for distribution, legal... Or are you under the impression that Best Buy stores appear out of nowhere, with stock selected and shipped from nowhere with no planning, with staff recruited and paid by nobody, no legal support, no tech suppor…

Payroll, HR, finance, the website, tech support for in-store systems, planning for growth, product selection, manufacture liaison, operations planning for distribution, legal are all jobs that could be done from home. Fixed that comment for you.

Thanks for that, I don't normally have any problems with a certain amount of aggression in a comment, but that one came across pretty badly, however, I think it would have been an order of magnitude less offensive had it not been for the leading statement.

Re: Best Buy ends work-from-home program

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Post by [deleted] »

yuniu wrote: post #25
tjtrapp wrote: post #24

i don't understand what type of work gets done at home when one works for a retail company like best buy. when i think of best buy, i think of people in blue shirts trying to sell me the latest widget. if i think harder, i can imagine people who have to get stuff on the store shelves and maybe managers who have to create reports or something. what type of jobs are actually "work from home" jobs at retail stores?

Are you really that retarded? Payroll, HR, finance, the website, tech support for in-store systems, planning for growth, product selection, manufacture liaison, operations planning for distribution, legal... Or are you under the impression that Best Buy stores appear out of nowhere, with stock selected and shipped from nowhere with no planning, with staff recruited and paid by nobody, no legal support, no tech suppor…

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