In February of 2013, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer made headlines across the world – most of them negative – after she decreed that employees at the fledgling tech company could no longer work from home. Studies show people who work from home are more efficient, have less conflict with colleagues, are happier and they save the company money on overhead costs. So was Mayer’s move an “epic fail”? Not necessarily. There are a lot of compelling reasons to let employees work from home and it should definitely be offered to all employees, at least on a partial basis. But there …Read more »
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Why Allowing Telecommuting Is (And Isn’t) A Good Idea
Category: Perfecting The Hiring Process |
Tags: Google, HR, Human Resources, Innovation, Marissa Mayer, Telecommuting, Work From Home, Yahoo
The Genius of Google’s Invisibility
It’s been said that the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist. Google is not the devil – far from it, actually. But they’ve pretty much accomplished the same thing: although we use Google every day for nearly everything, it is almost as if it doesn’t exist. And that’s intentional. What? I’ve been reading the book What Would Google Do by Jeff Jarvis and some parts I’ve found particularly fascinating. For example, Jarvis said that when Google was first created, it didn’t care about making money. Instead, all it cared about was getting as many people …Read more »
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Tags: AOL, Business Innovation, Google, Hiring, HR, Invisibility, PR, What Would Good Do, Yahoo
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