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

Where are you going to go then? The other companies you'd be shopping yourself don't like you working from home either.

 

@LTL

My point on all this is that Yahoo is showing poor leadership on how they are handling this. The poor leadership extends to what appears to be obvious mismanagement of their stay at home work force.

In the scenario presneted I would have evaluated each company to what suits my lifestyle best and gone to that company.

I count myself fortunate that while I work out of an office I am pretty much free to come and go as I please as long as I get my work done.

I have had a sick kid at home and worked from home with the caveat that I make up the time when I see fit, even outside of business hours.

It is not so much the Yahoo reverssal of policy I have issue with, just the lack of leadership in how they are handling it.

 

Blah blah blah-ba-dy blah.

You don't know what their workforce is like, you don't know what tech culture is like, and when you can't answer any specific questions there are these vague things about "ham-fisted" and "poor leadership." Whatever. That's just the worker equivalent of corporatespeak. And then you say you actually don't disagree with the policy itself. Some people are trained to hate anything that comes from management and it sounds like you fall in line with Baron here.

Google, Facebook and Apple must have poor leadership too because they don't like their employees working from home.

 

There are a lot of tech companies and IT types that support a work from home policy today. And more coming down the road. I don't think these disenchanted Yahooers will find the cookie jar empty if they choose that's a key part of the employment contract they want to have with their employer.

 

speaking of hamfisted...

Google has been rated as one of the best places in the US to work. They provide great benefits to their employees but do not encourage working remotely.

The fact that Mayer built a day care next to her office and then imposes rules about working from home tells me all I need to know about Yahoo leadership.

I don't hate anything from management but nice work grasping at straws. What questions have I not addressed?

Hopefully you have better listening skills than reading skills.

 

I love this thread. I'm voting for Baron for POY 2013 as many times as possible.

 

And as I noted very early in the thread, Yahoo wants to have many thousands of fewer workers than they do now, so maybe this works out for all sides and saves the company $50-100M in severance too.

 

Exactly.

This is the kind of move that makes a sharp, ambitious and efficient worker lower his price to leave. Maybe this is why Yahoo wants to thin out the herd voluntarily.

Ever have a bad week at work and there is that one moment (could be a boss, could be a reader/viewer, could be a late reimbursement check) that makes you think "I have nothing more to accomplish here."? Then your casual job check of what's out there becomes an all-out search.

Happened to me twice in my younger (pre-parent) years. I went from casual looking to giving my notice within three weeks both times.

 

As for hours logged/vaca time/who works harder yada yada...

I was a "hard charger" until I was 31 or 32. It took me that long to realize that no manager's rewarded that. They would just push and push.

I don't log as many hours as I did before I became a parent. I would say, however, I am far more efficient with my time now. Some of that is technology. Some of that is time management as I've gotten older.

 

LongTimeListener must have had a really bad breakup recently with either an Internet-based company or a lady who works for an Internet-based company.

 

LOL. Naw, but I bet you anything those fuckers at Deadspin work remote.

 

It has to do with priorities, and how productive a worker is.

Instead of the company looking for real solutions, they're going for the low-hanging fruit that does little to help things. That is why I used a dress code as an example.

Now, if Yahoo had enough research, they could have explained the policy change better. As in, "We're not making enough revenue because of X, Y, and Z, which includes at-home workers." Instead, they put out some crappy memo full of cheery buzzwords.

Heck, if management was really smart, they'd use working at home as a reward to their employees. As in, if the company improves its revenue enough, you can work at home again.

Not to mention, Apple has recently been embarrassed with its overseas operations with how they, and their subsidiaries, treat their workers. You sure you want to hold them up as the example?