Why working from home might not be for right for everyone

I gotta like Yahoo's move to get all young and hip by blowing a billion or so to pick up way-cool site Tumblr. After all, Yahoo was the company with the yodeler and the fish; the company that bought an employee's old International Harvester that he ...

It was a change in policy by new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer that has put the work-at-home issue front and center for many companies.

In her nearly two-year stint at Yahoo!, Marissa Mayer has made headlines thrice - when at 37, she became the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company; when she joined office within two weeks of becoming a mother; and when she banned work-from-home for all employees in February. Click NEXT to read ...

Marissa Mayer, the boss of Yahoo, set a cat among the pigeons recently by banning telecommuting. Yahoos telecommuting ban suggests that location takes precedence over productivity. The edict has unleashed a furious debate.

Yahoo's leaked edict under CEO Marissa Mayer that calls remote workers back to the office lit the Twitterverse on fire, angering advocates of telecommuting and other programs intended to balance work and home life.

The decision by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer to ban work from home plans has set off a debate.

OK, I can see why this was such big news, and in saying exactly that, I think Marissa Meyer and Yahoo! got what they were hoping for. 16,200 Google results do not lie. However, the focus all seems to be on home working and its pros and cons. I think ...

Yahoo! Chief Executive Marissa Mayer, by ordering staff to report to offices, risks losing the productivity gains that can come from flexible work arrangements and could jeopardise her ability to lure top talent.

After Yahoo's chief executive, Marissa Mayer, ordered employees working from home to show up at the office for work, there was speculation that she was emulating Google, her previous employer.