Yahoo employees told to work in an office

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YAHOO CEO Marissa Mayer has put her foot down on working from home sending a memo to all employees saying they must work in the office or quit.

Eight months after stepping into the top job at Yahoo, Ms Mayer has clamped down on the huge number of employees working from home, arguing that interactions and experiences are part of the job.

The memo said that speed and quality are often sacrificed when employees are working from home and advised employees that if they couldn’t, or wouldn’t come to the office they should quit.

“We need to be one Yahoo!, and that starts with physically being together,” read the memo from HR head Jackie Reses that was leaked to AllthingsD

A source familiar with Ms Mayer’s decision to ban working from home told The Business Insider that Mayer believed Yahoo had become fat and lazy, many home-workers weren’t productive, were never seen and people didn’t know they were working with Yahoo.
Ms Mayer saw it as a cost-cutting exercise too, according to the source.

“She knows that some remote workers won’t want to start coming into the office and so they will quit. That helps Yahoo, which needs to cut costs. It’s a layoff that’s not a layoff.

The announcement has sparked fierce debate with many accusing the CEO of taking the workplace back to the 1980s, despite giving other perks since she joined the company such as free iPhones and free meals.

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