Now Best Buy ends flexible work program for corporate employees following Yahoo! CEO's ban
11:47 EST, 5 March 2013
Best Buy corporate workers are the latest to trade in their bathrobes for briefcases, as it was revealed today the brick-and-mortar company is now placing a ban on telecommuting.
The company has decided to end its results-oriented policy in favor of the traditional 40-hour work week done from an office environment.
News of the switch comes after the controversial decision by Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer to require all workers to come into the office, which has sparked a national debate over office policy.
According to Minnesota Public Radio, the change was sparked in part because of the electronic retailer’s struggling performance against online stores such as Amazon.
More: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2288551/Best-Buy-ends-flexible-work-program-Yahoo-CEO-Marissa-Mayer-imposed-ban-practice.html
Best Buy ends work-from-home program
March 5, 2013: 3:15 PM ET
Unlike Yahoo's blanket policy, Best Buy (BBY, Fortune 500) said some of the 4,000 non-store employees who took advantage of its work-from home program still may be able to telecommute or set flexible schedules. But as of Monday they'll no longer have the freedom to make those decisions without a manager, as they had in the past.
"It used to be a right about which a manager had no say. Now it's a conversation," Best Buy spokesman Matt Furman said in an email. "We believe in employee flexibility but are looking for it to come in the context of a conversation between that employee and their manager."
Best Buy's terminated program, called Results Only Work Environment (ROWE), was enacted in 2005 to great fanfare. It drew praise from flexible-schedule advocates and garnered a BusinessWeek cover story the following year.
More: http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/05/technology/best-buy-work-from-home/
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