Marissa Mayer came to Yahoo with transformation in mind. The high-flying tech leader left Google and came to Yahoo with a focus on reinventing services and technology and delighting investors, but it’s been a mixed record. Perhaps her biggest success…
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With STEM Diversity, Do We Flood the Pipeline or Fix the Holes?
Editor’s Note: Weekly Wrap has been pre-empted by spring conference travel season. It will return soon. “It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.” — Denis Healey A great cry has…
Reddit Pulls Back Remote Workers Despite New San Francisco Law
More than 1,200 high tech start-ups and household names from Yelp to Salesforce call San Francisco home. Web phenom Reddit, the self-styled “front page of the Internet,” is small but influential. It became its own lead story last week as…
Right to Request Flex: It Seems to Be on the Fast Track in the U.S.
Flexibility stops plodding and goes for the fast track In 2012, the tally of employees covered by a legislated right to request flexible schedules was: United Kingdom = 30 million Australia = 11.5 million New Zealand = 2.6 million United…
Bad Management is a Lot Like Smoking – It’s Not Ignorance But a Bad Habit
Barely a week goes by without at least one article or study bemoaning the things managers don’t know or do. A frequent target: the pitifully low level of workplace feedback. Feedback is “too rare,” “too vague” or too “attaboy.” Its…
San Francisco’s Flex Work Legislation: Will it Be Win-Win or Lose-Lose?
China Gorman, CEO of Great Place to Work, wrote an excellent Thanksgiving Day TLNT piece on San Francisco’s new Family Friendly Workplace Ordinance (FFWO) that goes into effect on New Year’s Day. “The Flex Work Question: Is Legislation Really the Right…
3 New Battles in the Fight Over the Flexible Workplace
If 2013 has been a year of telework controversy, October is raising the bar. Its first two weeks have brought several strong – and conflicting – voices to the debate: FFWO, HP, and One Million for Work Flexibility. FFWO –…
Should the City of San Francisco Mandate Flexible Workplaces?
While on business in San Francisco the last 10 days, I had the opportunity to join discussions about the city’s proposed flexibility ordinance. When San Francisco Supervisor David Chiu proposed a ballot measure requiring companies to entertain flexible schedule requests…
With Turnover Rising, Can Flex Work Help to Recruit & Retain Employees?
“The U.S. economy added 175,000 jobs in May, in line with average job growth over the prior 12 months.” – CNN Money The level of unemployment is slowly, ever so slowly, coming down. In my consulting work over the last…
The Flex-Work Debate: Yahoo’s CEO Misses the Real “Elephant in the Room”
“People are more productive when they’re alone, but they’re more collaborative and innovative when they’re together.” — Marissa Mayer, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer maintained a long and remarkable silence in the face of unrelenting criticism of Yahoo’s mid-February “ban on…