Since Marissa Mayer was recently hired as the chief executive officer to try to revive Yahoo, she has apparently been reverting to more traditional business practices. Both Yahoo and her former employer, Google had established policies of certain people being able to work from home. However after taking over at Yahoo, Mayer has rescinded the work at home policy at Yahoo, and is now requiring employees to work together in a more collaborative environment. The current thinking is along the lines of, "People who work at home are said to be more productive but less innovative".
Silicon valley innovations like instant messaging and video conferencing have made working remotely much more available and acceptable today, however Yahoo feels that working in the same location drives innovation. The standard Silicon Valley perks still are abundant, such as free cafeterias, gyms, shuttle buses, ice cream, and dry cleaners not only are employee perks, but also help to keep the employees on campus during the day, and promote interaction between co-workers.
Bank of America is another company that is curtailing working at home, and is reducing to a small number the number of remote jobs.
What is ironic is that just yesterday, the news mentioned that Marissa Mayer was having a nursery built at her Yahoo office.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/26/technology/yahoo-orders-home-workers-back-to-the-office.html?hpw
1 comment:
This is pretty interesting to me. I can really see how some companies could be quite worried about this. It has become a lot less who can do the most work, but does it in the most innovative way possible. Especially a titan like yahoo.
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