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I hope our leaders are measuring the right things. It's discouraging to read how Mayers came to her decision to ban remote work. > She said the decision stemme
by nomagicbullet 4y ago
I hope our leaders are measuring the right things. It's discouraging to read how Mayers came to her decision to ban remote work.
> She said the decision stemmed from her first few months at Yahoo, when she was spending a couple of hours every day in the cafeteria talking to any employee who wanted to chat.
Selection bias.
> Mayer decided on the ban after spending months frustrated at how empty Yahoo parking lots were and consulting Yahoo’s VPN logs to see if remote employees were checking in enough.
Confirmation bias.
Both clear examples of cognitive bias: reading into easily accessible data as a proxy for relevant valid data and using it to justify decisions.
- sytelus 4y agoDuring pandemic there was published paper (in nature?) that collected and analyzed thousands of employee data and arrived at same conclusion. It’s hard to stay disciplined when working remotely, apparently. However, I don’t think remote-only startups suffers from same issue. Moving traditional office employee to remote suddenly would be problematic unless there was a proper training for setting up home office, meeting etiquette, setting up cultural expectations etc.