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Yahoo will be the first of many to bring employees back to the workplace,
and for many good reasons.
Not all employees have the discipline to work on their own. Many need the supervision to make sure that they're doing their jobs as expected, and that they're productive.
Also, there won't be as many distractions as can be found by working from home. Nowadays, there are a lot more distractions than before the modern computer age and the internet age combined. The internet offers too many distractions, like Facebook and Twitter and chat/discussion sites, and YouTube, and porn, and even news and information sites, and many other "attractions". That kind of distraction cannot be monitored remotely by supervisory or management personnel. While some might feel that they can control their urges stray into the distractions, chances are that, they too will not be able to resist.
Also, when working from home, their are families with little or young ones needing attention, and that too will be distracting, and will render the employee less productive.
Plus, there is always the TV, which in itself, will be very disruptive to many who will be tempted by the daytime shows (I know first hand about that, when a lady I used to work with admitted that she was hooked on the soaps and daytime talk shows, and she ended up being canned when her work suffered).
Plus, Yahoo (Marissa Mayer), is absolutely correct when she explains that, the workplace, with the highly interactive environment, is the place where ideas originate the most for a company. We've heard it said before that, many heads are better than one; a leisure conversation can lead to the next great idea for a company, or to a solution to an existing problem. One other fact is that, what an employee does at home, is not completely known to the employer, and there could be many cases where an employee will reveal secret company information to other or to the competition. Another matter is where an employee might come up with his own idea, and will develop it, on company time, and once "finished", takes off on his own and either sells the idea or develops and implements it for his own purposes. Even if the employee had take a 1/2 hour or an hour per day from the company time, that is still company property.
Anyhow, there are likely a few more negatives, and a few more positives, but, overall, Mayer is approaching the matter correctly. Besides, a company that is not doing so great, has to take charge of all of its assets in a no nonsense approach, and that includes all of its people.
One also has to agree that, the socializing within a corporate or business environment, leads to many other benefits to the business and to the personnel of that company.
Plus, (and this is an aside, but an important one), imagine the benefits to the economy at large, where those millions of telecommuters will become a stimulus to an economy which is stagnant and even going towards recession. Millions more people needing to get gasoline for commuting or to spend on bus or train rides, and millions needing to get breakfast and lunch, and millions needing to purchase clothing and shoes. Yeah, there are some negatives surrounding the commuting to work, but, for a company, the positives do outweigh the negatives.
Not all employees have the discipline to work on their own. Many need the supervision to make sure that they're doing their jobs as expected, and that they're productive.
Also, there won't be as many distractions as can be found by working from home. Nowadays, there are a lot more distractions than before the modern computer age and the internet age combined. The internet offers too many distractions, like Facebook and Twitter and chat/discussion sites, and YouTube, and porn, and even news and information sites, and many other "attractions". That kind of distraction cannot be monitored remotely by supervisory or management personnel. While some might feel that they can control their urges stray into the distractions, chances are that, they too will not be able to resist.
Also, when working from home, their are families with little or young ones needing attention, and that too will be distracting, and will render the employee less productive.
Plus, there is always the TV, which in itself, will be very disruptive to many who will be tempted by the daytime shows (I know first hand about that, when a lady I used to work with admitted that she was hooked on the soaps and daytime talk shows, and she ended up being canned when her work suffered).
Plus, Yahoo (Marissa Mayer), is absolutely correct when she explains that, the workplace, with the highly interactive environment, is the place where ideas originate the most for a company. We've heard it said before that, many heads are better than one; a leisure conversation can lead to the next great idea for a company, or to a solution to an existing problem. One other fact is that, what an employee does at home, is not completely known to the employer, and there could be many cases where an employee will reveal secret company information to other or to the competition. Another matter is where an employee might come up with his own idea, and will develop it, on company time, and once "finished", takes off on his own and either sells the idea or develops and implements it for his own purposes. Even if the employee had take a 1/2 hour or an hour per day from the company time, that is still company property.
Anyhow, there are likely a few more negatives, and a few more positives, but, overall, Mayer is approaching the matter correctly. Besides, a company that is not doing so great, has to take charge of all of its assets in a no nonsense approach, and that includes all of its people.
One also has to agree that, the socializing within a corporate or business environment, leads to many other benefits to the business and to the personnel of that company.
Plus, (and this is an aside, but an important one), imagine the benefits to the economy at large, where those millions of telecommuters will become a stimulus to an economy which is stagnant and even going towards recession. Millions more people needing to get gasoline for commuting or to spend on bus or train rides, and millions needing to get breakfast and lunch, and millions needing to purchase clothing and shoes. Yeah, there are some negatives surrounding the commuting to work, but, for a company, the positives do outweigh the negatives.
Posted by adornoe
25th Feb