Case 12.1: Yahoo!A Female CEO and New Mother Forbids Working from Home
On September 28, 2012, Yahoo General Counsel Ron Bell warned, “We will fire employees who leak company confidential information and we will avail ourselves of all other legal remedies to protect those confidences.” Ironically, Kara Swisher of All Things Digital posted Bell’s confidential warning hours later on her popular technology website, www.allthingsd.com .1 Just six months later, Swisher again posted a brand-new leaked Yahoo memo that informs “work-from-home” employees to begin daily commutes to Yahoo offices. She credits a “plethora of irked Yahoo employees” as her source for the memo that has quickly spread throughout the media over ...
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