Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer Bans Working from Home, Yet She Installs a Nursery in Her Office
Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer Bans Working from Home, Yet She Installs a Nursery in Her Office:
Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer has caused immense fall out by issuing a new policy declaring that starting in June, all Yahoo! employees are required to come in to the office, and that working from home is now banned. At 37, Mayer is the youngest ever CEO of a Fortune 500 company, and she previously made headline news for announcing she was six months pregnant a few hours after stepping into her role as chief — and for subsequently taking only two weeks maternity leave before returning to work and publicly stating that, “The baby’s been way easier than everyone made it out to be.”
To add insult to injury, Mayer installed a nursery in her office, and she’s allowed to bring her child to work. It’s good to be the queen, because apparently she’s a working mother who combines her career with parenting, but her fellow Yahoo! employees do not share this privilege and are now going to be forced to scramble to completely re-orchestrate their lives based on her edict. And due to her salary, $117 million over 5 years, Mayer no doubt has the ability to hire any number of nannies to help take care of her child. Again, a luxury the majority of mothers can’t afford — many of whom earn a paycheck that just about covers their childcare costs, while barely making a profit.
As a work from home mom myself, I am deeply disturbed at the stress this announcement will cause my fellow parents who report to duty on the home front, and who now have to find an alternative way to balance the fine art of “doing it all” in a society and culture where the “powers that be” behind the workforce don’t want to help moms and dads have both a successful career and a thriving home life in which they are present to raise their children.
One of the explanations Mayer offers for rolling out her new office standard is, “Speed and quality are often sacrificed when we work from home… we need to be one Yahoo!, and that starts with physically being together.” However, there is overwhelming evidence that contradicts this ideology. Read on to learn why working from home is better for employees, companies and the environment. And cast your vote regarding Mayer’s controversial mandate in the poll below.
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Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer has caused immense fall out by issuing a new policy declaring that starting in June, all Yahoo! employees are required to come in to the office, and that working from home is now banned. At 37, Mayer is the youngest ever CEO of a Fortune 500 company, and she previously made headline news for announcing she was six months pregnant a few hours after stepping into her role as chief — and for subsequently taking only two weeks maternity leave before returning to work and publicly stating that, “The baby’s been way easier than everyone made it out to be.”
To add insult to injury, Mayer installed a nursery in her office, and she’s allowed to bring her child to work. It’s good to be the queen, because apparently she’s a working mother who combines her career with parenting, but her fellow Yahoo! employees do not share this privilege and are now going to be forced to scramble to completely re-orchestrate their lives based on her edict. And due to her salary, $117 million over 5 years, Mayer no doubt has the ability to hire any number of nannies to help take care of her child. Again, a luxury the majority of mothers can’t afford — many of whom earn a paycheck that just about covers their childcare costs, while barely making a profit.
As a work from home mom myself, I am deeply disturbed at the stress this announcement will cause my fellow parents who report to duty on the home front, and who now have to find an alternative way to balance the fine art of “doing it all” in a society and culture where the “powers that be” behind the workforce don’t want to help moms and dads have both a successful career and a thriving home life in which they are present to raise their children.
One of the explanations Mayer offers for rolling out her new office standard is, “Speed and quality are often sacrificed when we work from home… we need to be one Yahoo!, and that starts with physically being together.” However, there is overwhelming evidence that contradicts this ideology. Read on to learn why working from home is better for employees, companies and the environment. And cast your vote regarding Mayer’s controversial mandate in the poll below.
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.
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