wfh works great if your work is mostly heads-down. Remote working sucks for anything creative and almost everything collaborative -- I can't tell you how many 3

wfh works great if your work is mostly heads-down. Remote working sucks for anything creative and almost everything collaborative -- I can't tell you how many 30 minute meetings I have every day that could have been solved with a 5 minute conversation and a picture on a whiteboard. While that's unavoidable to some extent, you should also try to be physically collocated with the people you work with most frequently to reduce the overhead of interaction with them. Also, wfh can be a bad thing if the company has a paranoid, avoidant, passive-aggressive culture like Yahoo did. Life situations that require flexibility can seem like extended absences to coworkers who aren't in the loop, which in turn spawns rumors, misinformation and resentment among employees. By the time she took over, Yahoo had been in a death spiral for years. Most of their best employees were already gone, and everyone left was mostly punching the clock. You've gotta make changes when that's happening, and scaling back wfh is reasonable in that context. I'm sure they made exceptions on a case-by-case basis anyway.