專欄Yahoo

Mayer has the power to tell her workers what to do

Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s new chief executive, has caused consternation by insisting that employees who have worked from home must in future come to the office. Her critics have pointed out that home workers are as productive, if not more so, as those in cubicles.

They are, however, missing the point. Ms Mayer is mostly doing this as a rough and ready way to reform Yahoo’s notoriously dysfunctional and disorganised culture. She is also doing it because she can.

The lesson to draw from Ms Mayer’s whip-cracking – in Silicon Valley, of all places – is that this is an age of harder work. From intense teamwork at the top to monitoring and surveillance at the bottom, managers are squeezing more from employees than they previously would have dared.

您已閱讀14%(746字),剩餘86%(4729字)包含更多重要資訊,訂閱以繼續探索完整內容,並享受更多專屬服務。
版權聲明:本文版權歸FT中文網所有,未經允許任何單位或個人不得轉載,複製或以任何其他方式使用本文全部或部分,侵權必究。

約翰•加普

約翰·加普(John Gapper)是英國《金融時報》副主編、首席產業評論員。他的專欄每週四會出現在英國《金融時報》的評論版。加普從1987年開始就在英國《金融時報》工作,報導勞資關係、銀行和媒體。他曾經寫過一本書,叫做《閃閃發亮的騙局》(All That Glitters),講的是霸菱銀行1995年倒閉的內幕。

相關文章

相關話題

設置字型大小×
最小
較小
默認
較大
最大
分享×