Re:Shopify Goes Digital by Default
by alexbanks on Thursday May 21, 2020 @12:27PM
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Revenue is king. Yahoo pulled it as a last ditch "I don't know, maybe this is the problem" attempt. If companies going full time remote find that they're struggling to perform they'll probably switch back. I think if they just continue the same or improve, definitely not.
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Re:Shopify Goes Digital by Default
by look_lookatme on Thursday May 21, 2020 @12:42PM
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It was also a personality-driven decision (Mayer).
Re:Shopify Goes Digital by Default
by hn_throwaway_99 on Thursday May 21, 2020 @01:10PM
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I disagree with this. I think anyone who came in to the Yahoo CEO position when Mayer did would have been absolutely insane to allow the work from home policy to continue:
1. It was obvious from the data that tons of people were taking advantage of WFH at Yahoo (e.g. never logging into the corporate network)
2. Easy to make the argument that the problem was Yahoo management didn't manage WFH well, but even if one takes that as a truism (I'd say especially if one takes that as a truism) seems like the fastest way to fix that would have been to at least get everyone in the office.
WFH can work great, or it can be a total failure, but the worst in any case would be to come into a specific situation and not make decisions based on the data for that company at hand and instead base them off some broad "industry trends" standards.
Actually, it was data-driven. She reportedly looked at how many people who were WFH were actively using the company VPN.