My argument has been that good employees can be effective working from home. If you have employees who are goofing off at home, it is not that you are letting them work from home; it is just that you have bad employees. These folks are not professionals and should be fired. The reality is that they will goof off even when they are in an office (you all know the types who waste time on the Internet or are constantly on the phone or spend plenty of time in the hallways and cafeteria, etc.) and it is naive to think that you can somehow make them more productive by forcing them to come to work in a building.
Having said that, Yahoo is completely within the rights of a firm to tell its employees that they cannot work from home. So while Marissa Mayer maybe a little out of touch (she is a CEO, is worth more than $300 millions, makes tens of millions of bucks a year, has a nursery in her corporate office, etc.), she can still treat low level employees any way she wants. Look, there is no point in whining; if you don't like Yahoo policies, just quit (in any case, Yahoo is not a company that is thriving or will survive). All those whiners who are criticizing her need to understand that these are the one percenters (or job creators, as the Republicans like to call them) and then the rest of us. The same rules don't apply to everyone.
Having said that, Yahoo is completely within the rights of a firm to tell its employees that they cannot work from home. So while Marissa Mayer maybe a little out of touch (she is a CEO, is worth more than $300 millions, makes tens of millions of bucks a year, has a nursery in her corporate office, etc.), she can still treat low level employees any way she wants. Look, there is no point in whining; if you don't like Yahoo policies, just quit (in any case, Yahoo is not a company that is thriving or will survive). All those whiners who are criticizing her need to understand that these are the one percenters (or job creators, as the Republicans like to call them) and then the rest of us. The same rules don't apply to everyone.