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

I have worked in situations where, indeed, people "working from home" weren't doing shit. But that's because the company put no expectations on them, there was no policy, and it was done really to mollify people rather than for some legitimate issues regarding productivity. And then resentment builds from everyone who schleps into the office.

 

Versatile is not a parent (thankfully for his nonexistent children).

 

You do not normally present yourself as stupid, but this is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard. What are you saving them for?

 

You should apply at Yahoo and Google. They would love you.

 

Why do you have to go somewhere that costs a lot of money in order to use your vacation days? Nothing wrong with taking a day here, a day there. Unless your work doesn't allow that.

But yeah, leaving them on the table is stupid.

 

That was my point. People don't become manipulative assholes who make other people's jobs more difficult because they become parents. Those people always have been that way. Even when they were childless. Making blanket statements about the effectiveness of workers who have children versus workers who don't is the typical ignorant black-and-whiting of an issue that goes on around here.

 

Hey, I got crap when my mother-in-law died near the end of a week-long vacation and I was going to extend it another week for the funeral, which was also 600 miles away.

It was a two-person sports section, but that's on the paper for not having enough employees who know how to put out a paper when one person is gone.

Dipshit SE was harping on "Sometimes you have to miss things," when he regularly took vacations on weekends for a wedding of some acquaintance from college who gave him a pity invite.

Wife was really sick and had to go to the ER, and I got crap for that. It wasn't as if I was abusing time off as I had more than two weeks of PTO left

 

This writer points that out:
http://blog.prettylittlestatemachine.com/blog/2013/02/20/what-your-culture-really-says/

 

Situations change. In our business you may get moved to a different beat than the one you signed up for. Or you may get moved to the desk. Deal with it. Or leave.

And nothing is "arbitrarily" being taken away. This wasn't done on a whim. There was (apparent) reasoning behind it --- the opposite of something that's arbitrary.

From the story:

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Yahoo has a huge number of people of who work remotely – people who just never come in.
Many of these people "weren't productive," says this source.
"A lot of people hid. There were all these employees [working remotely] and nobody knew they were still at Yahoo."
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Yeah, it would be perfect to pinpoint every single "unproductive" person and make only them come in. But in life, and in business, the bad apples spoil it for everyone. Hardly anything new.

 

From another post, in the Tell-Us-How-You-Really-Feel Department:

When I first started my career in Silicon Valley, I made the profound mistake of getting an entry-level job in tech PR, a generally sycophantic industry that is, among other things, a sprawling ghetto for women, a crutch for bad products, a sworn enemy of plain English, and a pit of lies and incompetence.

http://blog.prettylittlestatemachine.com/blog/2012/03/25/the-toxicity-of-launch-culture/

 

I am a bit suprised at the lack of empathy for the work at home people on the board. I have read countless times on this board about shitty employers yet I read responses that anything but full committment to work means you are a dog fucker.

As was pointed out, dog fucker single parents were probably dog fucker single people. I would position that most workers with kids feel more pressure on job performance because they have people to support.

If Yahoo set out the expectation that you could work from home and is now taking it away the CEO should lead by example and leave her kid at home. It is just poor leadership otherwise.

I work from home all the time and accept that part of trade off is that I do work outside business hours at times as the need arises.

I get that from a cultural stand point Yahoo wants everyone in the office, relationships get things done. If however there is a performance issue with a work at home employee then it is a case of a shitty manger not managing the performance.