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Why?
by orcdork 10y ago
Why?
- twbarber 10y agoBecause it's hypocritical.
- optimuspaul 10y agoIt is? How so?
- twbarber 10y ago"...there are some mothers who need to stay home" and a policy that disallows working from home contradict one another, no?
- lintiness 10y agoha, no. the statement probably suggests that mothers who need to stay home don't need to work / at yahoo.
- optimuspaul 10y agosays nothing about those being working mothers.
- gaius 10y agoAnd also because she had a creche built at Yahoo for just her own kids... http://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-who-just-banned-working-from-home-paid-to-have-a-nursery-built-at-her-office-2013-2?IR=T http://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-who-just-banned... It should have been a policy to do it for everyone...
- Ntrails 10y agoCaring for a child in the early years is a full time job - not something you can do in the downtime between remote working. There is no actual conflict in her statements unless a mother both needs to work and needs to stay at home, and consider that to be possible.
- thomnottom 10y agoI have multiple friends who balanced full time remote work with raising their children and would disagree with that statement.
- wwwdonohue 10y agoNope. Just means those kinds of mothers shouldn't try to work at Yahoo.
- morley 10y agoI think you're reaching. A person could say, "Some people need to use drugs, some don't" and still be either for or against drugs. Or could run a company that bans or allows drug usage.
- wwwdonohue 10y agoRunning a company that bans drug usage while you do drugs at work would be a little different.
- Someone1234 10y agoTelecommuting, or working from home helps working mothers get back into work sooner and gives them more flexibility once they are. Banning it is contrary to the ideals she sets out above.
- AdmiralAsshat 10y agoBecause this is the woman who had a nursery built in her office so that someone would attend to her kids while she worked, while at the same time not extending this same courtesy to any of her female employees. Cutting off the ability to work remotely, which is how most people who cannot afford child care manage small children, sends the message that she is uniquely allowed to work and be a mom, while everyone else can pound sand.
- chapium 10y agoWhy just female employees? Dads need to care for their kids as well.
- qq66 10y ago"Cutting off the ability to work remotely, which is how most people who cannot afford child care manage small children" Not in the slightest. The lower one's income, the lower the chance that they will be allowed to work remotely. You can't work at McDonalds remotely.
- exstudent2 10y agoRegardless of income, there's no reason to force developers to be on site. That Mayer went to such great lengths to have her preferred childcare setup at work but didn't extend any options to other parents is extremely poor leadership.
- wesd 10y ago>Cutting off the ability to work remotely, which is how most people who cannot afford child care manage small children I haven't seen anyone who can look after a small child and work at the same time. Either you're working or looking after the child. On the other hand if your argument is that Yahoo should have offered discounted childcare on onsite that Marissa received, then your argument makes perfect sense.
- AdmiralAsshat 10y agoI don't agree, particularly for a developer role. I've known developers who worked remotely specifically for this reason, that they could not afford daycare. Developers tend to be tracked more based on hours logged into a project than being in one's desk from 9-5, so the general concensus was that if they punched in their 40 hours and met deadlines, no one really cared where those 40 hours came from.