Yahoo CEO: No more working remote -- get to the office or quit

This whole issue is also a little bit of a window into why tech companies are constantly fighting to get more H1B visas and allow highly educated immigrants to stick around. Lots of talk of "brain drain" and a shortage of engineers. There isn't really a dire shortage of engineers. There's a shortage of engineers who want to work twice the hours for half the pay (and very low non-family benefit costs) that the young unattached men from China and India are happy to take.

 

And a company usually doesn't just tear up the entire manual and decide to start brand-new, although they may say they do. See New Coke as an example when things get changed too much.

What happens if Yahoo continues its slide? What then? Will they take away the billiards tables next because profits fall further? That'll be the ticket.

 

No. Which brings us back to the point that it was profoundly dumb to ramp up such a blanket policy, as well as the point that if there are that many people they can't find and aren't doing their work, where the fuck are the managers and what are they doing?

 

They'll probably go out of business if they continue their slide, you nitwit. People have been waiting for them to go out of business for five years now.

Really, just read an article about business once in a while. And not one that's filled with car analogies.

 

Looks like Mayer isn't improving morale, nor cutting the glut in mid-management.

http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-employees-heres-what-marissa-mayer-needs-to-fix-2012-7?op=1

 

Ding ding ding.

 

Fine asswipe.

Yahoo's net income for 2012: $2.89 billion.

http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Yahoo!_(YHOO)/Data/Net_Income

Doesn't sound like they're going out of business anytime soon. True, profit and revenues are falling. That's incumbent upon management. They need to come up with some real strategies to generate revenue. Instead, they're blaming work-at-home employees for their lack of foresight.

Had Mayer done something like order the employees back to the office, but provide goals and incentives for them to reach in order for them to regain the privilege of working at home, I could understand that. Instead, she's using a blanket policy.

And instead of a car analogy, I'll use a newspaper one instead. The newspaper is profitable, but profit, revenues and value is falling. Management's solution: Install a dress code for employees. Think that'll improve things?

 

Man, you're fucking stupid. Yahoo has lost well over half its value as a company and is a constant takeover target. It's all pver the Internet and has been for five years.

 

Well, maybe Yahoo will get bought out by a company with a work from home policy...

 

The young men from China probably improve their chance of marrying by moving here. It's an unconventional fringe benefit, but I bet it's an incentive for some.

 

Upon reading this again, I have to ask: You equate a dress code with the issue of whether employees are showing up at work and completing their work as efficiently as they could?

I take it back. You should stick to the car analogies.

 

Tech company or not, leadership is leadership.

If you create a company where people want to work whether it is through cheap meals or on site child care you are going to attract the best people, maybe it is letting people work remotely.

The way Yahoo hamfisted this and the defenders of this misplaced Calvinist work ethic ramblings show me that Yahoo has shitty leadership.

If I was a hotshot tech guy and had competing, comparable offers, why would I go to such a dumbass place?