It's worth noting, Marissa only took 2 weeks maternity leave, so she has a somewhat conservative view on work life. I doubt it's the right medicine to bring Yahoo back to former greatness; you lure good employees into the stable with benefits, not with a whip. Google and Microsoft seems to understand this.
On Saturday, February 23, 2013 6:50:57 PM UTC+1, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: > > I would certainly not call that a trend, especially since remote work is > still pretty rare in the US (albeit disproportionately real in the Silicon > Valley and more widespread than in the rest of the world overall). It > definitely is a controversial move for Yahoo to do that since it means they > will have a harder time attracting talent, but I bet Marissa and the > executive team have carefully weighed the pros and cons and they decided > that they would win more than lose with this decision. > > > -- > Cédric > > > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Fabrizio Giudici < > [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Roughly ten years ago I hoped that within ten years technology and >> culture were mature (even in my country) for me to remotely work most of >> the time. My hope was tightly bound to my desire to move out to the >> countryside. This didn't happen, partially because I live in a country that >> is conservative in the wrong way, partially because I admit that for the >> kind of work I'm doing technology is not mature enough. But I know many >> people who remotely work for a substantially high amount of time. Perhaps >> it's still matter of time, and I'll be able to remotely work for my 50's... >> >> So I was really surprised in reading that at Yahoo! the CEO allegedly >> decided to kill the remote work option, so employees who do it will be >> forced to use their desktop at the corporate or go away: >> >> http://allthingsd.com/**20130222/yahoo-ceo-mayer-now-** >> requiring-all-remote-**employees-to-not-be-remote/<http://allthingsd.com/20130222/yahoo-ceo-mayer-now-requiring-all-remote-employees-to-not-be-remote/> >> >> >> The rationale seems to be a cultural one, not a technical one, so I'm >> even more surprised. I wonder whether there is a trend inversion in the >> USA, or this is just a one-of-a-kind case. >> >> -- >> Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect @ Tidalwave s.a.s. >> "We make Java work. Everywhere." >> http://tidalwave.it/fabrizio/**blog <http://tidalwave.it/fabrizio/blog>- >> [email protected] <javascript:> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Java Posse" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to javaposse+...@**googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/**group/javaposse?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en> >> . >> For more options, visit >> https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> >> . >> >> >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
