Leadership at Yahoo: Is CEO Mayer right to reign in telecommuting? As I telecommute today, I still agree with her in principle. Where it makes sense to come in, make 'em come in to work.
An excerpt from the New Yorker article linked below: "The fundamental point is that much of the value that gets created in a company comes from the ways in which workers teach and learn from each other. If telecommuters do less of that, the organization will be weaker. On top of this, there’s evidence that telecommuting can make it hard to foster trust and solidarity—an issue that matters a lot to Yahoo right now."
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2013/03/18/130318ta_talk_surowiecki#ixzz2NRYJTbwB
I suspect that we will revisit this "case study" in a few weeks in our course...
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