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Five years spent working from home has provided me with my fair share of conference call snafus. Truth be told, this article could easily be titled “7 Ways I Humiliated Myself Via Skype.” Fortunately, armed with a small dose of common sense, mastering the teleconference can be simpler than uploading an email attachment. In other words? I’ve learned the following lessons the hard way, so you don’t have to.
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Marissa Mayer seems to be making an effort at Yahoo! to take into account that not everyone is a genius workaholic. She is making changes at the company that show compassion for families, and this will not only benefits her employees but the welfare of the company as well. More
We love her. We hate her. We love her. We hate her.
Since accepting the position as Yahoo CEO, Marissa Mayer has not stopped making waves. We loved her as a strong, powerful, female CEO of a big, important company … then some were irked when she took a two-week maternity leave after giving birth to her first child. More
In February, Yahoo’s new CEO Marissa Mayer made headlines when she revoked her employees’ privilege to work from home. She also kicked off a national conversation about whether working from home makes employees more productive, or whether it makes them less innovative, and whether a male CEO would have gotten as much flak for making the same decision. But Mayer herself has remained silent on the issue since she issued the controversial memo — until now. More
Lots of people are up in arms over Marissa Mayer’s decision to outlaw working from home at Yahoo. As a manager at a media company with a fairly flexible work environment, it’s not that I see no value in working from home. Say … More
Some of Yahoo!’s employees are furious their new CEO Marissa Mayer just banned working from home.
The idea that Mayer is denying some employees the convenience of telecommuting—when she apparently built a nursery in her office to accommodate her own new-mom status—doesn’t help. More
Business owners love to find ways to lower their taxes. But the IRS has lots of finicky rules for home office deductions that make it less appealing than it might seem at first glance.
But all that is about to change. More
One small step for a woman, one giant leap backward for womankind: CEO Marissa Mayer is revoking all existing work-from-home arrangements at Yahoo. According to a report from All Things D, all employees will now be required to stay in the office, even if they have existing arrangements allowing them to work from home.
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This is a post from our friends at Money Crashers about avoiding scams while working from home.
With job postings still scarce, job security dissipating, and wages seemingly stagnant at best, many people are trying to establish some security by creating multiple streams of income. It’s a smart strategy, but if you have trouble leaving your home or primary position to get to a second job, you’ll find yourself frustrated and stressed out. More
Thanksgiving is a day away, which means lots of food, family and traveling. While Thanksgiving eve is one of the busiest travel days of the year, its not a holiday. Its the day before the holiday. This means you might be expected to get some work done this Wednesday, but how? With all the traveling you’ll be doing, it may seem impossible to get any work done, right? Wrong. There are ways to be productive wherever you are stuck this Thanksgiving. Here is a how-to guide on setting up a work station anywhere from grandma’s, to the airport and everywhere in between. More
With Hurricane Sandy stirring before striking the Northeast, lots of my fellow coworkers will be doing the same thing I’m doing: working from home in house slippers. How can you do this from your couch without missing a beat in your usual workflow? Here are 10 tips. More
I’m getting ready to design my very own home office and I’m more than a little excited. So I’m trying to take some inspiration and create the perfect work space. Here’s what I think I’ll need to drag myself out of bed every morning. Let me know how you made your home office inviting and efficient. More
Today is Take Your Child To Work Day, which means very little to me. In fact, one of my colleagues mentioned it on Skype this morning and the collective response from all our writers was, “Oh, right.” As a woman and mother, I hate to admit this, but my first thought was, “Is Take Your Child To Work Day still relevant in 2012?”
Don’t get me wrong – the initial premise of Take Your Child To Work Day is awesome. It was actually created by Ms. Magazine, which dubbed the event “Take Our Daughters To Work Day.” That was 20 years ago, and it was very much a reflection of how far girls still had to go before they were equal to boys. A decade later, the name was changed to “Take Our Sons And Daughters To Work Day,” which showed that girls had indeed made great strides. More
