Yahoo’s Chief Executive Marissa Mayer, who only joined the company in July last year, is making some drastic decisions that not all members of staff are happy about.
Marissa Mayer
The Chief Exec recently informed thousands of staff members in a memo that she is putting an end to remote working and forcing everyone back to the office from June. But if people aren’t happy about the move they can hand in their notice.
The change in working conditions will not only affect full-time employees, but also those that only work two or three days a week. But it is not yet understood if the change is just for colleagues across the pond or whether the rule will affect UK workers.
A snippet from the memo said: “To become the absolute best place to work, communication and collaboration will be important, so we need to be working side-by-side. That is why it is critical that we are all present in our offices.”
But many workers argue that working from home is more productive than working in an office, due to fewer distractions. Companies can monitor what their employees are doing and if it makes the staff member happy and more productive, what is the problem?
One former Yahoo employee, who worked from home, gave his account of what it was like to work an office before switching to remotely.
“I didn’t have to put up with self-important programmers constantly yakking to each other LOUDLY from the next set of cubicles about non-work-related stuff, and I wasn’t being distracted every 20 minutes by some bored soul coming over to my desk to go for coffee or foosball.”
It seems for Yahoo employees that they either move with the company or get out. Marissa has already made an impression in her short time with the company as profits were up by 2 per cent from October to December of 2012, when compared to the previous year and she had only been with the company six months.
Do you work from home? Do you think Marissa is making the right decision by ending remote working, or do you think she will lose a lot of good staff to other employers who will honour their working conditions?
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