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
Will there be 1 Billion Mobile VoIP Users by 2017?
most VoIP users aren’t paying a dime for their IP telephony. Many mobile VoIP apps, as well as many desktop VoIP applications, are completely free to use, and it’s questionable how many people will really want to start shelling out for what is often utilized as an auxiliary service.
A “Realistic” Picture of IP Telephony’s Cost Savings (Pt 2)
Think about it this way- unless your department is already grossly over budget, or unless your department has been explicitly instructed to cut costs, saving money isn’t that big of a deal in-and-of itself. In the absence of immediate budgetary pressure decision makers aren’t looking to spend less.
A “Realistic” Picture of IP Telephony’s Cost Savings (Pt 1)
Price is a huge factor when it comes to deciding between sticking with traditional telephony services and making the jump to IP telephony. It’s one of the biggest selling points IP telephony providers use to push their technology, and it’s one of the clearest, firmest, more directly measureable ways decision-makers at an organization can see the benefit of switching over to IP. After all, while organizational flexibility and scalability are great benefits they can seem a little abstract, factors whose potential may be difficult to envision when a business is currently locked into a relatively fixed traditional telephony technology set-up.