Just when the dust was settling on Yahoo, along came Best Buy. Another endangered company with a new CEO was pleading for “All Hands on Deck!” as it … Read more
Weekly Wrap: The Downside of Flex Work – Feeling Really Out of the Loop
In all the many words that have been written about the Yahoo and Best Buy decisions to quit allowing out of the office flex work, one point seems to have … Read more
The Flex Work Dilemma: How Do You Optimize Motivation and Productivity?
Now that the dust has settled a bit about Marissa Meyer’s controversial “no working from home” policy at Yahoo, I thought I’d weigh … Read more
Hey Yahoos: Here’s Why I Really, Really Love Work at Home
Now that everyone has calmed down about Yahoo pulling their ‘’Work From Home” program and making those Yahoos working from home come back to … Read more
Goodbye ROWE: Best Buy Ends Flex Work Program It Was Famous For
All things must pass, as George Harrison once observed, and so it is with Best Buy’s famous Results Only Work Environment, known simply as ROWE. … Read more
The Yahoo Effect: It’s All About Collaboration — One Way or Another
Marissa Mayer and telecommuting each took some hits last week. A Yahoo search identified 219,000 results last week for “Yahoo + telecommuting” – and a … Read more
Weekly Wrap: How Wrong I Was About Doing Flex Work From Home
I was asked this week what I thought of Yahoo’s decision to end flexible work arrangements for its employees. Yes, I know; we’ve been inundated … Read more
No More Flex Work? Are You Freaking Kidding Me?
So those who may not know, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer recently announced that employees are no longer allowed to telecommute – at all. I told myself I was … Read more
Why I Think the Yahoo Flex Work Decision Makes Perfect Sense
People have asked me what I think of Yahoo’s decision to no longer allow employees to work from home. I think it makes sense. Yahoo is a fractured … Read more
Sometimes, a Policy Change Is Just a Policy Change – Even at Yahoo
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and sometimes, a policy change is just a policy change. And to attribute larger societal meaning is misguided and, well, … Read more