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We shouldn't specifically criticize Yahoo, or read too much into it: It was (and may still be) a completely dysfunctional company where, it seems, a lot of employees had simply accepted the slow ride into obscurity, where relevance came only "by default" (I still can't believe that Yahoo is the most visited website). Mayer essentially hit the reset button to regroup and figure things out again, and she has specifically talked about her action having little to do with actual remote work, and more to do with trying to get the organization back on track. Sucks for the employees of Yahoo, but, to put it bluntly, they were the employees of Yahoo. So long as you work for someone else, they get to make those decisions.

And her action then kicked off many others to read way too much into it, usually to springboard off for their own interests. Mediocre managers who have no clue what their charges are doing, and can only manage suffering, for instance, all cheered and forwarded and linked.