Sunday, March 24, 2013

Why Work-from-Home Policies Work

New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer made the bold move recently to rollback Yahoo's work-from-home policy and require all employees to work at Yahoo's offices.  Best Buy almost immediately followed suit and ended their work-from-home program.  There was a firestorm of media coverage on Yahoo's decision, most of it against the move.  Here's three different takes: New York Times, Forbes, and CIO.  My take: a laughably bad idea.  Here's why.