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It was also a personality-driven decision (Mayer).
by look_lookatme 6y ago
It was also a personality-driven decision (Mayer).
- alexbanks 6y agoI don't now much about her other than most of the people that I know that worked at Yahoo during her time did not like her.
- hn_throwaway_99 6y agoI disagree with this. I think anyone who came in to the Yahoo CEO position when Mayer did would have been absolutely insane to allow the work from home policy to continue: 1. It was obvious from the data that tons of people were taking advantage of WFH at Yahoo (e.g. never logging into the corporate network) 2. Easy to make the argument that the problem was Yahoo management didn't manage WFH well, but even if one takes that as a truism (I'd say especially if one takes that as a truism) seems like the fastest way to fix that would have been to at least get everyone in the office. WFH can work great, or it can be a total failure, but the worst in any case would be to come into a specific situation and not make decisions based on the data for that company at hand and instead base them off some broad "industry trends" standards.
- atarian 6y agoActually, it was data-driven. She reportedly looked at how many people who were WFH were actively using the company VPN.