{"id":8158,"date":"2013-02-28T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8158"},"modified":"2013-02-28T09:12:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T14:12:38","slug":"the-benefits-of-working-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-benefits-of-working-from-home\/","title":{"rendered":"The Benefits Of Working From Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/022813_1408_TheBenefits1.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been <a href=\"http:\/\/money.msn.com\/now\/post.aspx?post=d7ce02a4-7093-4b76-849a-f363587a5b39+&amp;ocid=ansmony11\">a<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2013-02-28\/the-excessive-uproar-over-marissa-mayers-telecommuting-ban\">bit<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/healthland.time.com\/2013\/02\/28\/how-yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-is-building-a-nursery-by-her-office-and-dissing-working-moms\/\">of<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.com\/html\/businesstechnology\/2020439012_yahooofficeworkxml.html\">a<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com\/2013-02-27\/news\/37330998_1_workplace-flexibility-yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-innovation\/2\">kerfuffle<\/a> over Marissa Mayer&#8217;s decision to ban employees from working from home. Farhad Manjoo believes that this is a mistake and pointed out all the benefits of working remote:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>By taking away the commute workers have more time to be productive.<\/li>\n<li>Workers also no longer have to worry about office distractions such as small talk or figuring out where to get lunch.<\/li>\n<li>When attending a meeting in person individuals are forced to pay attention. If they dial into a conference call they only have to pay attention if the meeting is actually useful for them.<\/li>\n<li>For employees that work remotely managers are forced to focus on the quality of the employee&#8217;s work rather than arbitrary metrics such as how much time they spend at the office to evaluated their performance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about Manjoo&#8217;s thoughts as well as why Mayer might have taken the decision over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/technology\/2013\/02\/yahoo_working_at_home_marissa_mayer_has_made_a_terrible_mistake_working.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/technology\/2013\/02\/yahoo_working_at_home_marissa_mayer_has_made_a_terrible_mistake_working.html\">Slate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a bit of a kerfuffle over Marissa Mayer&#8217;s decision to ban employees from working from home. Farhad Manjoo believes that this is a mistake and pointed out all the benefits of working remote: By taking away the commute workers have more time to be productive. Workers also no longer have to worry about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/022813_1408_TheBenefits1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8161,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158\/revisions\/8161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}