One large company with an uncertain future shutting down opportunities to work from home is an opening in the market for several smaller companies with more ups

One large company with an uncertain future shutting down opportunities to work from home is an opening in the market for several smaller companies with more upside to their futures to offer such opportunities to new hires. In a diverse business ecosystem with free enterprise, customers like you and me decide which companies' products and services will be monetizable, and the companies decide which personnel practices help them meet market challenges. I know of a SaaS company, much smaller than Yahoo but apparently growing and profitable, that has an explicit "results-based management" policy. That means the managers don't care how often their developers come into the office, and as long as developers finish their projects with reasonable quality and speed, and keep up with their support tasks (ALL the developers do rotating shifts on support, to stay near customer concerns), then the managers are happy. Not all companies can organize that way, but then again not all companies have to organize just like Yahoo either. Yahoo is one model of running a company. The 37 Signals model appears to work for 37 Signals, but not everyone wants to follow their model. Each company gets to try something out, and we consumers get to pick the winners.