Banning telecommuting at Yahoo!

• Main Author: ANG, Jovina
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: Marissa Mayer; Mayer; Yahoo; telecommuting; trust; culture; communication; leadership.; Business Administration, Management, and Operations; Business and Corporate Communications; Human Resources Management
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cases_coll_all/55; https://cmp.smu.edu.sg/case/1821
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This case is set in February 2013, when several disgruntled Yahoo employees immediately leaked a confidential memo that had arrived from the human resources department, advising them of a telecommuting ban that was to be imposed in June that year. The memo became a hot item in traditional and social...