This is likely a temporary restriction designed to regin in empoyees and increase accountability at a publically faltering firm. Whilethe aggressive policy reversal risks spurring a brain drain of telecommuters, this experiment in 'corporate bonding' may be the type of strategy Yahoo needs to jumpstart the cultural renissance your described in your article.
"For me, work is a state of mind and being, not a location. It's something that I do, not a place that I go."
I totally agree. If I am not focused on what I'm doing, then it doesn't matter whether I'm in the office or working remotely. I remember a few years ago during a winter storm that left my house with no power. My husband and I packed up our office and the kids and headed to Chick fil A. I was more productive in the 4.5 hours we were there then I had been all week in the office.
@Scott it does feel backward to me. I would think working with individual workers would be a better start rather than issuing a full on ban for everyone. Maybe they tried that already, I don't know. I'm still disappointed, especially since I do better working from home than from a noisy office that's good for interruption but usually not productivity...
Do I Yahoo? Oh yeah, I Yahoo alright. Anytime I turn on my iPhone and I want stocks or the weather I totally use Yahoo. Except I don't use it for anything else, because, well, it's a substandard portal.
I just don't get the logic behind Yahoo's decision. Doesn't seem to make sense to me, why fight gas savings and avoiding traffic jams?
I think it's a bad sign of worse things to come at Yahoo. At a moment when they really need people to shake things up, going back to the office telecommuting grind seems just so backwards.
I didn't even realize telecommuting was an option at Yahoo until it was banned. I feel bad for telecommuters far from a Yahoo office who will be out of a job or required to move to stay on. This is quite a shake up.
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