On The Job

MAY 8, 2014

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer put the kabosh on work-from-home deals and ordered everyone to return to the office so they could be more collaborative and innovative. The problem is that many companies, Yahoo included, manage telecommuters exactly the same as they would manage people in the office. With more than 3.3 of the U.S.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 25, 2014

Yahoo Travel's The New Digital Nomads - Run Your Business From Anywhere in the World covers the growing trend towards people professionals who are choosing a location-independent lifestyle that allows them to travel and work anywhere in the world. We met a lot of people who telecommute to other cities.

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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

government have found that allowing employees to telecommute, when done correctly, can increase employee productivity and satisfaction, reduce costs for the company, reduce employee turnover and allow access to a larger talent pool. Conversely, other companies like Yahoo! Organizations from Automattic to the U.S.

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On The Job

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

(Oh, and in case these brilliant minds think they can always stay one step ahead of the boss, just consider Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer’s checking VPN logs and discovering how telecommuting workers were slacking.) You still have to collaborate and not drag your feet like a 5-year-old about to be sent to bed early.

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 30, 2017

Those who have been telecommuting have the choice of moving or leaving the company. IBM, of course, isn't the only well known example of a company reducing or eliminating telecommuting. Yahoo rather famously did this several years ago and Google and Apple have always tried to limit telecommuting.

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