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Seems like this is the popular outrage for today. I posted this on another thread earlier --> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5271940 http://news.ycombinato

Seems like this is the popular outrage for today. I posted this on another thread earlier --> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5271940 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5271940 -- Am I the only one who isn't that outraged by this? I'm as big of a proponent for remote workers as anyone (I basically quit my last job over it), but it makes a lot of sense for yahoo in this case. 1. They're regrouping, reorganizing and refocusing their vision. All of which are much easier to do in person. 2. The group buy-in that she needs to shift Yahoo's culture, product and focus is much easier to get when they're all in one centralized location. 3. Remote workers count for a fraction of their workforce? It's not like it's going to be a massive change for 50%+ of their workforce. They're just getting the few remoters back in house. Like I said, I'm a big proponent of remote working, but this seems a little overblown to me.

kmfrk 14y ago
Seems like this is the popular outrage for today. Seems like this is what people use Medium for. I still have no idea what the value proposition of Medium is. At least I usually know what I'm in for, when I see an article coming from the platform.
phil 14y ago
Well put. Few people seem to make a distinction between what's good most of the time and what's good when you're trying to turn around a moribund giant whose dysfunctional processes are a big part of the problem.
venus 14y ago
Furthermore, this article's entire argument seems predicated on the idea that the remote workers in question are all above-average star performers: > Having a great team with distributed members still far out perform a co-located average team No evidence is presented in support of this basic assumption.
- josourcing 14y ago
  I'm not going to defend the author's work. He should have pointed to some stats that support his assertion, which are plentiful and available on the web.

kmfrk 14y ago

Seems like this is the popular outrage for today. Seems like this is what people use Medium for. I still have no idea what the value proposition of Medium is. At least I usually know what I'm in for, when I see an article coming from the platform.

phil 14y ago

Well put. Few people seem to make a distinction between what's good most of the time and what's good when you're trying to turn around a moribund giant whose dysfunctional processes are a big part of the problem.

venus 14y ago

Furthermore, this article's entire argument seems predicated on the idea that the remote workers in question are all above-average star performers: > Having a great team with distributed members still far out perform a co-located average team No evidence is presented in support of this basic assumption.

josourcing 14y ago
I'm not going to defend the author's work. He should have pointed to some stats that support his assertion, which are plentiful and available on the web.