Management 13th Edition by John Schermerhorn,Daniel Bachrach

Exercise 26

THINK BEFORE YOU ACT
"Bye-bye telecommuting" was the message. Mayer's stated goal was to bring face-to face collaboration back to the Yahoo! culture and increase innovation in the process.
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Bans Telecommuting

S ituation All eyes were on Marissa Mayer when she left a successful stint at Google to become Yahoo!'s CEO. But not everyone liked what they heard when she told employees there would be no more working from home. "Bye-bye telecommuting" was the message. Mayer's stated goal was to bring face-to face collaboration back to the Yahoo! culture and increase innovation in the process.
Critics of Mayer's decision claim it flies in the face of evidence that not only do most employees want the option of telecommuting-as high as 80 percent in some reports-but they're both harder working and more satisfied when they can spend time working from home. "Telecommuting... has allowed me to have a career as well as be a mother," said a posting by "digital mom" on Babble.com, an online website for parents.
Th ose who support Mayer's decision point to other employers-including Bank of America, Google, and Twitter-that are either cutting back on or discouraging work-at home choices. When asked, "How many people telecommute at Google " the firm's chief financial officer replied: "As few as possible."
YOUR TAKE
What is your position on telecommuting Does experience tell you that it works or that it doesn't Is it something that you are looking for in an employer Does Mayer's decision show courage in the face of a popular but not necessarily performance-friendly practice Or, was it a premature rush to blame work-at-home practices for what she perceived as Yahoo!'s failures of collaboration and innovation