Employers like the current setup because they can make sure people aren’t playing Minesweeper all day
This is the aspect of the argument that makes me have to take a self-imposed time-out.
The prime time of every major online site is during office hours. Ebay, Reddit, Slashdot in its prime, Digg in its prime, even our loveable Hacker News. Most of the people here are sitting at a desk in an office, biding the day away until they clock out.
We know that many (if not most) office workers piss away a significant portion of time that they're in the office.
A good manager of people knows the realm that their charges work in, and understands the contribution each of them makes. That they warm a seat 60 hours a week is absolutely irrelevant if they make no contribution, yet for mediocre managers everywhere it is the only thing they can competently measure so you see that desperate fear of people working remotely.
Marissa Meyer has become the hero of terrible managers (and jealous people) everywhere. I mean no ill towards her (Yahoo is in tough times, this may be a way of letting go of some people, they're regrouping everyone, and the initiative might not even have been hers), but there is a cluster of mediocrity that is raising a banner around this action of Yahoo.
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Employers like the current setup because they can make sure people aren’t playing Minesweeper all day
This is the aspect of the argument that makes me have to take a self-imposed time-out.
The prime time of every major online site is during office hours. Ebay, Reddit, Slashdot in its prime, Digg in its prime, even our loveable Hacker News. Most of the people here are sitting at a desk in an office, biding the day away until they clock out.
We know that many (if not most) office workers piss away a significant portion of time that they're in the office.
A good manager of people knows the realm that their charges work in, and understands the contribution each of them makes. That they warm a seat 60 hours a week is absolutely irrelevant if they make no contribution, yet for mediocre managers everywhere it is the only thing they can competently measure so you see that desperate fear of people working remotely.
Marissa Meyer has become the hero of terrible managers (and jealous people) everywhere. I mean no ill towards her (Yahoo is in tough times, this may be a way of letting go of some people, they're regrouping everyone, and the initiative might not even have been hers), but there is a cluster of mediocrity that is raising a banner around this action of Yahoo.