I disagree with your assertion that the workplace was not conducive to work. It was not conducive to work in my particular circumstance with the particular work I was being asked to accomplish.
Do I believe that Yahoo is like this? Absolutely. I believe that people desire to work from home for as many reasons as there are items in your grocery store.
Do I think people work from home because Yahoo is, at times, an impossible workplace? Absolutely.
I can't answer the last question because it's a straw man argument.
Marissa should be focusing on how to attract top talent. When was the last time you heard anyone say, "I can't wait to go to work at Yahoo!"? Good talent exists in many forms but for the sake of argument, say the only two forms are those that can come into the office and those that have to work from home. Why would you wholesale dismiss 1/2 of them? This is an internet company...you know that ubiquitous utility that most of us have in our homes? Therefore it's reasonable to assume that an internet company can benefit, in many ways, from having a distributed workforce...that...you know..is on the internet. :)
Look, I cannot understand why this decision was made across the board for all of Yahoo! All I can assert is how this wouldn't work for me and for a lot of other developers that I know. Great developers at that. This decision seems short-sided and really odd considering all of the other battles Yahoo is going to face. BUT, I'm not privy to the intimate details of this decision either.
Do I believe that Yahoo is like this? Absolutely. I believe that people desire to work from home for as many reasons as there are items in your grocery store.
Do I think people work from home because Yahoo is, at times, an impossible workplace? Absolutely.
I can't answer the last question because it's a straw man argument.
Marissa should be focusing on how to attract top talent. When was the last time you heard anyone say, "I can't wait to go to work at Yahoo!"? Good talent exists in many forms but for the sake of argument, say the only two forms are those that can come into the office and those that have to work from home. Why would you wholesale dismiss 1/2 of them? This is an internet company...you know that ubiquitous utility that most of us have in our homes? Therefore it's reasonable to assume that an internet company can benefit, in many ways, from having a distributed workforce...that...you know..is on the internet. :)
Look, I cannot understand why this decision was made across the board for all of Yahoo! All I can assert is how this wouldn't work for me and for a lot of other developers that I know. Great developers at that. This decision seems short-sided and really odd considering all of the other battles Yahoo is going to face. BUT, I'm not privy to the intimate details of this decision either.