Did Yahoo! Make the Right Decision Banning Work-From-Home Arrangements? (Pt 6)
There’s one more point deserving a quick mention in the discussion over Yahoo!’s decision to ban work from home arrangements and how this might impact the way other businesses approach the whole topic within their own organizations. The CEO Question A lot of the debate over whether or not Yahoo! did the right thing banning … Read more
Did Yahoo! Make the Right Decision Banning Work-From-Home Arrangements? (Pt 5)
Work-from-home arrangements offer an incredible opportunity to add some flexibility to your workforce, but they can’t be entered into cavalierly, without oversight and without a clear plan about how you will manage your workforce and whether or not your organization, and some of your employees, might work better sharing physical space during their 9-5, no matter how much freedom modern technology allows. Work-from-home agreements need to be entered into gradually, with lots of tracking implemented at the same time to determine the actual effects offering this perk creates within your organization.
Did Yahoo! Make the Right Decision Banning Work-From-Home Arrangements? (Pt 4)
By making the office somewhere people want to be, combined with a little oversight, Google is able to allow a hands-free, low-management remote work agreement with employees without worrying people won’t show up or won’t do their jobs.
Did Yahoo! Make the Right Decision Banning Work-From-Home Arrangements? (Pt 3)
…both supporters and detractors of Yahoo!’s decision seem to agree the company’s main problem was an incompetent implementation of its work-from-home policies
Did Yahoo! Make the Right Decision Banning Work-From-Home Arrangements? (Pt 2)
It may sound like nitpicking, but the company shouldn’t have positioned the new policy as some sort of choice employees have by using the phrasing “Beginning in June, we’re asking all employees with work-from-home arrangements to work in Yahoo! offices.”
Did Yahoo! Make the Right Decision Banning Work-From-Home Arrangements? (Pt 1)
One of the most significant elements of this controversy lies in the fact it was Yahoo! that decided to implement the ban, not Google, not Facebook, nor any of the other tech giants currently doing gang-busters business as they reshape the way the internet works. No, it was Yahoo!, a company that hasn’t blazed a significant digital trail in recent memory.
Observations on Selling Small Business VoIP
With all the talk about hosted telephony over recent years it’s no wonder some organizations feel sceptical about making the switch away from their current solution. Most organizations are inherently conservative and tend to adopt a “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” mentality. Part of this mentality comes from inherent human stubbornness and preference … Read more
Can Your IT Department Handle the Switch to VoIP on Their Own? (Pt 3)
There are certainly situations where someone might need to host their VoIP PBX system on-site and where they really should have their own IT department handle that system. Typically these companies have are either too small (3-4 users) and require very limited set of key system features. Others are very large and require advanced degree of integration of their Unified Communications into their back office system architecture.
The rest of the businesses fall somewhere in between and that makes them good candidates for hosted PBX solutions.
Can Your IT Department Handle the Switch to VoIP on Their Own? (Pt 2)
… if you had an illness would you assume that just any doctor would be able to handle it? If you had a highly specific ailment would you believe any general practitioner would know the solution to your problem? For that matter would you believe anyone who falls under the umbrella of “doctor” could provide you with the answers you’re looking for, including paediatricians or even vets?
Can Your IT Department Handle the Switch to VoIP on Their Own? (Pt 1)
The desire to physically operate on-site equipment translates directly into the desire to assert control over your equipment on you at all times. The truth however is that your equipment vendor, your carrier and only then your staff can assert such control.