Earlier this year Yahoo!’s Chief Exec, Marissa Mayer, announced that
she was axing the company’s working from home policy and ordered all
remote workers back into their nearest Yahoo! office by June this year,
or they faced losing their jobs. She cited one of her reasons as being
the need for better collaboration, and that this is done best when
people are in the same office.
Is this the harsh truth or outdated mentality? The latter if you ask me.
To suggest employees working from home limit an organisation’s ability to collaborate implies that that same organisation can’t collaborate with regional or overseas offices, external partners or clients properly. Whilst this may be the bleak reality for businesses whose technology systems are out of date, forward looking companies which have adopted cutting-edge enterprise social collaboration tools shouldn’t have these insecurities read more.
Is this the harsh truth or outdated mentality? The latter if you ask me.
To suggest employees working from home limit an organisation’s ability to collaborate implies that that same organisation can’t collaborate with regional or overseas offices, external partners or clients properly. Whilst this may be the bleak reality for businesses whose technology systems are out of date, forward looking companies which have adopted cutting-edge enterprise social collaboration tools shouldn’t have these insecurities read more.
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