Comments on: Right or wrong, Yahoo is the talk of the town http://gigaom.com/2013/02/27/right-or-wrong-yahoo-is-the-talk-of-the-town/ Wed, 22 May 2013 02:02:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: JeanSFleming http://gigaom.com/2013/02/27/right-or-wrong-yahoo-is-the-talk-of-the-town/#comment-1316882 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:11:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=615219#comment-1316882 All the commends are interesting speculation – and that is exactly the problem. Ms. Mayer may indeed have compelling reasons that make total sense for the business objective she is trying to achieve – but we don’t know, because Yahoo! has not managed the message. All we know is that she’s banned working from home, and has built (at her own expense) a nursery adjacent to her office. She needs to get ahead of her message.

]]> By: La6470 http://gigaom.com/2013/02/27/right-or-wrong-yahoo-is-the-talk-of-the-town/#comment-1316877 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:55:15 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=615219#comment-1316877 She has a nursery installed a few days back next to her office in yahoo. Does she gives the same facility to other working women , who have been working remotely? This just does not sound fair. If companies want their workforce to be physically present at office they should provide day care facilities in the premises as well.

]]> By: Ed http://gigaom.com/2013/02/27/right-or-wrong-yahoo-is-the-talk-of-the-town/#comment-1316745 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:01:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=615219#comment-1316745 The Yahoo workers obviously weren’t doing a great job innovating out of their homes. If they wish to blame anyone, it should be themselves. It’s not like Marissa is shaking things up in a great company with a bright future and productive and innovative staff!

]]> By: Ed http://gigaom.com/2013/02/27/right-or-wrong-yahoo-is-the-talk-of-the-town/#comment-1316744 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:58:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=615219#comment-1316744 it’s hardly like she’s messing with a good thing. sorry to inform you the cats are already fat and useless.

]]> By: Ed http://gigaom.com/2013/02/27/right-or-wrong-yahoo-is-the-talk-of-the-town/#comment-1316742 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:56:46 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=615219#comment-1316742 seems they can’t read blogs all day now that they actually have to work

]]> By: Ed http://gigaom.com/2013/02/27/right-or-wrong-yahoo-is-the-talk-of-the-town/#comment-1316741 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:55:35 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=615219#comment-1316741 That’s a poor analogy. Of course people are talking about how a failing company is failing. But having workers come on site is not the same as discussion of the merit behind that decision.

]]> By: MountainWalker http://gigaom.com/2013/02/27/right-or-wrong-yahoo-is-the-talk-of-the-town/#comment-1316732 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:50:01 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=615219#comment-1316732 It seems to me that some changes are happening within Yahoo!. We got to see some facets of them, but not all. Only Marissa can see the big picture as well as all the minor details, the rest of us can speculate all we want, but the true reason remains in the mist unless she speaks out (which I doubt would be her priority unless totally necessary).
From my observation, contrary to public belief, Yahoo! employees are not as opposing to the policy as we might think:
http://linwangge.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/yahoo-bans-working-from-home-not-a-bad-thing/

]]> By: cheese http://gigaom.com/2013/02/27/right-or-wrong-yahoo-is-the-talk-of-the-town/#comment-1316656 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 09:28:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=615219#comment-1316656 What Marissa needs to do is not just ban WFH policy, but roll out a complete HR / company culture policy, on the lines of the Netflix “culture” document. A doc like that will put to rest the many wagging tongues, while painting a comprehensive picture of what the envisaged culture is.

]]> By: Chris Taylor http://gigaom.com/2013/02/27/right-or-wrong-yahoo-is-the-talk-of-the-town/#comment-1316641 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:27:21 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=615219#comment-1316641 Frankly, I’m surprised by how long this story has lasted. If the most recent stories coming out of Sunnyvale are true and the Yahoo culture is broken, she had to do something big and soon. Maybe this is it or maybe there’s more coming on the heels of this decision.

We wrote up our takes here: http://successfulworkplace.com/2013/02/27/marissa-mayer-needs-to-shock-the-yahoo-system/

]]> By: ronald http://gigaom.com/2013/02/27/right-or-wrong-yahoo-is-the-talk-of-the-town/#comment-1316616 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 03:04:40 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=615219#comment-1316616 If you don’t know the direction you’re going, don’t start running. Seems to me like Management busy work. What if all these people start doing what people do, create sugar meetings. Everybody’s busy and the company gets fat..

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