When Yahoo! ended the company’s telecommuting option for employees early in 2013, and Best Buy followed suit a week later by terminating its groundbreaking, decade-old flexible work program, Results Only Work Environment (ROWE), they joined a growing trend among organizations trading flexibility for face time. Prior to Yahoo!’s decision, Bank of America had drastically cut back on their popular My Work program that used flexible scheduling and telecommuting centers to help employees find a work environment and schedule that made them most efficient. And Zappos, Amazon’s online retailer, also recently scaled back their flexible work arrangements.
New Research: Flexibility Versus Face Time
One finding: men use flexible work arrangements just as much as women.
July 08, 2013