Yahoo to ban telecommuting: to regain "entrepreneurial spirit"

Lead: Yahoo CEO Marissa (Marissa Mayer) 's decision to ban the telecommuting of Yahoo employees has sparked a stir in the US and even sparked outrage. In the opinion of people in Silicon Valley, there is nothing worth mentioning, says the foreign media, where most of the Silicon Valley employees come to work, and telecommuting is just a supplement to their work. However, in Yahoo's view, the move is to allow the company to pick up the "entrepreneurial spirit."

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Telecommuting is not common in Silicon Valley

In Silicon Valley, telecommuting is very common, but it is only a supplement to normal working hours, and does not replace office hours more than 40 hours a week. Although Silicon Valley is considered an innovative place full of free space, employees in the region tend to work in offices rather than telecommuting. This phenomenon is particularly common in startups.

Gumroad founder Sahel Lavenia (Sahil Lavingia), a start-up payment company, said: "Any one of our ideas is not a person's credit, almost all are two or more than two employees in a room, to discuss and explore." Such a process and result you cannot get through any "Internet Protocol". ”

But that doesn't mean Lavenia against his staff telecommuting. He added: "Any employee at home should be equipped with facilities similar to that of the company, so that they have the same or similar productivity at home as they do in the office." Many people spend a lot of time working from home, including weekends, outside of normal work. ”

Silicon Valley companies encourage employees to office

Yahoo issued a new rule last month 22nd, requiring all Yahoo employees to return to the office. Yahoo's new rule will be implemented in June this year.

Many startups offer welfare policies, including free food, games rooms and lounges, so that all employees can sit in the office. Such welfare policies apply to young engineers, and companies want them to attract sales and marketing staff. At the same time, many Silicon Valley companies also offer Wi-Fi-covered buses to shuttle employees to and from work, with the aim of making their commute more efficient.

Steve Jobs, Apple's founder, prefers his staff to stay in the office or work overtime. "It's late," he said at a press conference in 2010, and I saw that there were a few more cars left, and some engineers moved the crib to the office. "Other companies regularly hold meetings that all employees have to attend." Twitter calls such meetings "tea breaks", and more traditional Silicon Valley companies call them "All-hands" (all staff) time.

Staff in a room can generate a premium

The cloud storage startup box will hold a staff meeting after five lunches a week, with headquarters and offices held simultaneously and connected through video conferencing. Others are stricter, requiring all employees to attend face-to-face meetings on a regular basis.

Dan Rosensweig, Chegg CEO of the Network Book Company, believes that face-to-face communication is important because there may be overlap between products that are responsible for different teams. "Many companies have teams that are responsible for products, engineering, and business, and they often work together on a project, and close communication is critical," he said. ”

Website Building Services Weebly CEO David Lusenk (David Rusenko) believes that when people are in the same room, efficiency can be easily promoted. "We tried to sign up to a remote designer, but the job feedback cycle was too long," he says. If he sits next to you, the delay can be avoided altogether. He pointed out that the possibility of 10 exchanges and contacts between colleagues working in one room would greatly enhance communication efficiency and productivity.

There are a lot of veteran employees who believe that a co-worker can generate an extra premium, which is not achievable by a remote meeting. This is why a lot of company bosses require employees to keep "physical contact" no matter how difficult they are.

Yahoo wants to take the entrepreneurial spirit to ask itself

The lack of rules is one of the corporate culture logos of many startups, who are highly liberal in their work style. But few companies like Yahoo have banned telecommuting.

Old Silicon Valley companies such as HP and Cisco are much more open to telecommuting, but Yahoo is a mature but struggling company in a different situation. Both inside and outside the company believe that to revive Yahoo, all yahoo people need to work in one direction, and need to have "entrepreneurial spirit."

"Yahoo's ban on telecommuting is based on Yahoo's status and cannot be viewed from the industry's general perspective," said a spokesman for the

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