The Data That Drove Yahoo's Telecommuting Ban

Stiletto writes "Business Insider and All Things D are reporting that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's decision to ban telecommuting was data-driven, as you'd expect out of the former Google exec. After spending months frustrated at how empty Yahoo parking lots were, Mayer consulted Yahoo's VPN logs to see if remote employees were checking in enough. Despite all the outrage and flak she's getting from those outside the company for the move, some ex-employees are praising the decision, citing abuse, slacking off, and general 'unavailability' of folks working from home."

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Re:good idea

[DogDude]

Either you get your job done or you do not, how long it takes in the allotted time frame or what you do while doing it should not matter.

Spoken just like a person who has never had a single employee. There's a lot more to managing people than just getting X done in Y amount of time. People aren't just cogs in the proverbial machine, as you seem to imply they are.

Re:I can slack off anywhere

[BitZtream]

You aren't touching RCS servers with your work regularly? I'd fire you for other obvious reasons then. Your attitude would be a good excuse as well, you can be replaced for a 1/3rd the price by an Indian thats happy to have a job.

If you're working for a company, there are few and far between those people who actually have a reason not to be regularly communicating with internals. You almost certainly aren't one of those people since you're coding. You most certainly have people and servers within the origination you should be communicating with rather often or you are simply doing it wrong. If you don't understand what those functions on, thats yet another reason you should be dumped.

I realize that you're arrogant enough to think that you are a special case where this is not true, but you aren't. Sorry. Unless you are that one guy that runs the entire company and everyone works around him, and never needs standard company tools like revision control systems or continuos integration builds/tests with other workers collective output.

Get a grip, you deserve to be fired.