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The myth of working from home

7 points| benev | 13 years ago |bbc.co.uk | reply

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[+] snowwrestler|13 years ago|reply
Compare these two quotes:

> Glass was "flabbergasted" by the Yahoo memo. "This seems to be trying to bring Yahoo in line with corporate America, not high-tech industries," she says.

> Only last week Google's chief financial officer Patrick Pichette said when the company is asked how many people telecommute, their answer is "as few as possible".

What company better represents "high-tech industries" than Google? Maybe Apple? Microsoft? Amazon? My understanding is that these companies do not encourage or permit much working from home either.