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HP CEO Meg Whitman To Employees: No More Telecommuting For You

Posted by Soulskill on from the p.s.-you're-all-slackers dept.

McGruber writes "AllThingsD has the news that Hewlett-Packard has enacted a policy requiring most employees to work from the office and not from home. According to an undated question-and-answer document distributed to HP employees, the new policy is aimed at instigating a cultural shift that 'will help create a more connected workforce and drive greater collaboration and innovation.' The memo also said, 'During this critical turnaround period, HP needs all hands on deck. We recognize that in the past, we may have asked certain employees to work from home for various reasons. We now need to build a stronger culture of engagement and collaboration and the more employees we get into the office the better company we will be.' One major complication is that numerous HP offices don't have sufficient space to accommodate all of their employees. According to sources familiar with the company's operations, as many as 80,000 employees, and possibly more, were working from home in part because the company didn't have desks for them all within its own buildings."

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  1. Re:Thank you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, seriously. This is about as inspired as George W Bush's announcement that NASA was going to go to Mars(without any additional funding). I believe he was quoted saying at the time: "Not because it is easy, but because it is hard!"

    Does Meg Whitman really have to telegraph how completely out of ideas she is by copying the other executive with a vagina? Is Meg Whitman going to pose for Vogue next?

    At this rate the woman executive fad is going to self-destruct itself back in to a glass ceiling.

    Way to kill morale Meg! I'm sure your team is going to be really eager to make the next quarter successful, thereby establishing the precedent that "telecommuting is a cost-center".

    Telecommuting is a superior use of limited resources. Your employees will work harder for less pay because of this perk. You can draw on undervalued talent like parents with young children because of this perk. Your employees will get more done without distractions from coworkers because of this perk. The biggest advocates for traditional "distraction-hive" work environments are always useless extroverts without the organizational skills or talent to coordinate a large team in a structured fashion.

    Here's what actually happened:
    Shareholders had just finished ripping Meg a new one for a disappoint quarter or W/E, so when one of her subordinates was unavailable for her to PMS at: rather than fire the employee she decided to "demonstrate leadership" by making an example.

    Fuck her.

    BTW:
    What do Carly Fiorina, Meg Whitman, Marissa Mayer have in common? Answer: I dislike them because they make poor decisions.