Yahoo’s making flex work news again with an announcement Tuesday that it’s beefing up paid parental leave for men and women. Up to 16 weeks of paid leave, … Read more
The Flip Side of Working at Home: Sometimes, It’s Nice to Have an Office
I recently spent a week in an office for the first time since July 2009. I have spent days in coffee shops, co-working spaces, and other people’s offices … Read more
The Flex-Work Debate: Yahoo’s CEO Misses the Real “Elephant in the Room”
“People are more productive when they’re alone, but they’re more collaborative and innovative when they’re together.” — … Read more
Coping With the Rising Mobile Workforce and the BYOD Culture
My how things change. Several years ago, companies began taking employees out of offices and putting them into cubicles. From there, the trend went to open … Read more
Re-Tooling “Flexibility” – Is the Way We Describe It Getting in the Way?
Jack Nilles was a Southern California engineer who coined the term “telecommuting” in 1973. It caught on. Frank Luntz is a Republican marketing strategist … Read more
To Yahoo, Best Buy, et al: “It’s All About the Skills, Not the Location!”
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
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
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