Corralling the Yahoos
Technology allows millions of people to work from home. A big tech firm is trying to stop them
“YOU can’t have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you,” writes Marissa Mayer, the boss of Yahoo, in a blurb for a book called “Rebooting Work”. But not, it seems, if you are a Yahoo employee and working from home is really important to you. As part of her efforts to reboot the ailing internet firm, Ms Mayer has decreed that from June all the company’s staff will be expected to come into its offices to do their jobs.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Corralling the Yahoos”
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