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An internet Yahoo! Corporation memorandum posted this week from Yahoo! chief executive officer Marissa Meyer by the Wall Street Journal states that Yahoo! employees will be required to come into their corporate offices to "feel the energy and buzz" of their workplace.
Thus, Yahoo! officially fuels a fresh debate on "telecommuting".
Telecommuting, a growing trend in the US workplace, is coming under fresh scrutiny following news that Yahoo! is curbing the practice.
The trend of working from home has been gaining steam for decades, as part of a workplace evolution which allows greater family-work balance and saves energy and commuting costs.
“Speed and quality are often sacrificed when we work from home. We need to be one Yahoo!, and that starts with physically being together,” according to the report.
Asked about the memo, a Yahoo! spokesman said Tuesday, “We don’t discuss internal matters,” but essentially confirmed the news by saying: “This isn’t a broad industry view on working from home – this is about what is right for Yahoo!, right now.”
The shift counters the overall trend: some 53 percent of US employers offered flexible work options in 2012, according to the Society for Human Resource Management. That compares with 48 percent in 2007.
A 2011 report by the US Labor Department found 24 percent of employed Americans reporting that they work at least some hours at home each week.
The trend is particularly noticeable in IT firms, where companies take advantage of technology to have virtual access to what they would have at the office.
[Wall Street Journal, 02/25/2013; www.today.com/2-25-2013; lifeinc.today.com/2-25-2013; www.pakistantoday.com/2-27-2013]
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