Marissa Mayer Memo

Yahoo! Enterprise CEO Marissa Mayer composed a controversial memo that went viral on the internet. Banning her employee to work from home, Mayer’s memo elicited numerous critics which suggested that her strategy should be revised.

Larry Hawes’ main point on his Forbes article, “Marissa Mayer’s Yahoo Mistake (It’s Not What You Think) was Marissa should have made her policy as temporary rather than a final judgement, where five hundred out of twelve thousand Yahoo! employees have to give up their work-from-home status. Hawes stated that Mayer’s policy was short sighted and non-motivational to her employees. To this extent, I completely agree with the authors point of view, I felt that to fix current Yahoo!’s crisis, every employee has to be in their office as a team. But it should be only, like Hawes said, done in a period of a time frame. The temporary policy status would give more inspiration to their working performance and rejuvenation to their working routine by meeting their work colleague. …show more content…
She also has built an impressive resume just by being able to work from home. News has reported that a handful of Yahoo employees mistakenly took advantage of the work-at-home policy to slack off which bring the company into crisis. Maynard suggested Meyer to remove only those lose edge instead of sanctioning the entire work-at-home staffs. I concur with Maynard in this article, work at home has a lot of benefits. Recent Boston College research has proved less commuting for employee leads to lower stress and high work productivity. They are also a better individual because they stabilize better between personal and work life. On top of that, less commuting helps to save environment by reducing traffic and air