Rules for Friends with Benefits
When A Relationship Ends
Cupid Comes and Cupid Goes – It’s Just the Way it Is
The Three C’s — Criticize, Condemn and Complain
Learning Another Lesson About Life
Do you wear your heart on your sleeve?
Do successful women attract bad partners?
Dating the “undateable”
Yahoo’s new CEO took this policy with her to Yahoo, which had the more typically expected flexibility structure, and lots of folks working remotely using laptops and internet connections. She learned at Google that while people like this (obvious reasons why that is!), it doesn’t help productivity or creative collaboration, and isolates people from each other. So back to the office they were ordered — not a popular move. Not sure it will fix Yahoo, either, but it’s interesting that some of the younger managers of these new, young companies are not really embracing the idea of workplace flexibility.
My own view is that it depends on what you do. Not every industry or job position depends on a lot of interpersonal interaction, and some jobs can be done well remotely. I think, though, that employers are skeptical of remote work, and the Google approach will probably be tried more than the work from home approach will. My own F200 employer is undergoing an expensive renovation of its HQ facility to redesign the workspaces to be more like Google (more open, fewer offices, more collaborative space) and we are about the farthest thing from a tech company you could find, really. Employers want their workers at work, at the end of the day, I think.
When A Relationship Ends
Cupid Comes and Cupid Goes – It’s Just the Way it Is
The Three C’s — Criticize, Condemn and Complain
Learning Another Lesson About Life
Do you wear your heart on your sleeve?
Do successful women attract bad partners?
Dating the “undateable”
Yahoo’s new CEO took this policy with her to Yahoo, which had the more typically expected flexibility structure, and lots of folks working remotely using laptops and internet connections. She learned at Google that while people like this (obvious reasons why that is!), it doesn’t help productivity or creative collaboration, and isolates people from each other. So back to the office they were ordered — not a popular move. Not sure it will fix Yahoo, either, but it’s interesting that some of the younger managers of these new, young companies are not really embracing the idea of workplace flexibility.
My own view is that it depends on what you do. Not every industry or job position depends on a lot of interpersonal interaction, and some jobs can be done well remotely. I think, though, that employers are skeptical of remote work, and the Google approach will probably be tried more than the work from home approach will. My own F200 employer is undergoing an expensive renovation of its HQ facility to redesign the workspaces to be more like Google (more open, fewer offices, more collaborative space) and we are about the farthest thing from a tech company you could find, really. Employers want their workers at work, at the end of the day, I think.