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> Yahoo was doing this way back in 2013 and Marissa Mayer banned it because it wasn’t working. I've never seen anyone make the claim that Mayer banned it becau
by notional 6y ago
> Yahoo was doing this way back in 2013 and Marissa Mayer banned it because it wasn’t working.
I've never seen anyone make the claim that Mayer banned it because 'it wasn't working'. That's quite a revisionist history take.
- perpetualpatzer 6y agoAre you suggesting Yahoo getting rid of WFH wasn't an effort to boost employee performance? Or just objecting to the idea that "it wasn't working" suggests absolute performance was poor? Rereading the announcement memo[0], it seems pretty clear that the change flowed from a belief that being physically present would yield better work outcomes: "Speed and quality are often sacrificed when we work from home. We need to be one Yahoo!, and that starts with physically being together." [0] http://allthingsd.com/20130222/physically-together-heres-the-internal-yahoo-no-work-from-home-memo-which-extends-beyond-remote-workers/ http://allthingsd.com/20130222/physically-together-heres-the...
- TomVDB 6y agoI wouldn't discount the possibility that this was a case of mistaken causation instead of correlation, and some kind of hail Mary pass. "Yahoo isn't doing great work, a lot of people work from home, it must be because they are working from home." Mayer's tenure at Yahoo wasn't exactly a great success...