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5 Ways To Make Workplace Flexibility The New Way Of Working Forbes
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The market intelligence firm IDC estimates that the worldwide mobile
worker population will increase from just over 1 billion in 2010 to more than
1.3 billion by 2015.
But even as study after study confirms that employees from all four
generations of today’s workers are working remotely and increasingly want
(and even require) their prospective employers to offer workplace flexibility,
some companies – like Yahoo, Best Buy, and now Reddit – are equating
workplace productivity with face time in the office.
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When Marissa Mayer banned telecommuting at Yahoo, we began again a
debate of the benefits and pitfalls of virtual working. Soon after Yahoo
banned virtual working, Best Buy followed suit, ending its own influential
flexible work program, which was known as the ROWE (ResultsOnly Work
Environment) in favor of a much more conservative approach.
And now, even the forwardthinking tech company Reddit has ordered its
remote workers to relocate to San Francisco, or else say goodbye to their
jobs.
These companies demonstrate an understandable fear that geographically
diverse workforces will face disadvantages. Employees may work less
effectively, they reason, without the synchronous reallife moments that help
power collaboration and innovation.
However, they need only look to companies like Corning Incorporated,
which has harnessed Yammer as a tool for real time collaboration and...