I would certainly not call that a trend, especially since remote work is still pretty rare in the US (albeit disproportionately real in the Silicon Valley and more widespread than in the rest of the world overall). It definitely is a controversial move for Yahoo to do that since it means they will have a harder time attracting talent, but I bet Marissa and the executive team have carefully weighed the pros and cons and they decided that they would win more than lose with this decision.
-- Cédric On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Fabrizio Giudici < [email protected]> wrote: > Roughly ten years ago I hoped that within ten years technology and culture > were mature (even in my country) for me to remotely work most of the time. > My hope was tightly bound to my desire to move out to the countryside. This > didn't happen, partially because I live in a country that is conservative > in the wrong way, partially because I admit that for the kind of work I'm > doing technology is not mature enough. But I know many people who remotely > work for a substantially high amount of time. Perhaps it's still matter of > time, and I'll be able to remotely work for my 50's... > > So I was really surprised in reading that at Yahoo! the CEO allegedly > decided to kill the remote work option, so employees who do it will be > forced to use their desktop at the corporate or go away: > > http://allthingsd.com/**20130222/yahoo-ceo-mayer-now-** > requiring-all-remote-**employees-to-not-be-remote/<http://allthingsd.com/20130222/yahoo-ceo-mayer-now-requiring-all-remote-employees-to-not-be-remote/> > > > The rationale seems to be a cultural one, not a technical one, so I'm even > more surprised. I wonder whether there is a trend inversion in the USA, or > this is just a one-of-a-kind case. > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect @ Tidalwave s.a.s. > "We make Java work. Everywhere." > http://tidalwave.it/fabrizio/**blog <http://tidalwave.it/fabrizio/blog> - > [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Java Posse" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > javaposse+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/**group/javaposse?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en> > . > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> > . > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
