When Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer banned telecommuting earlier this spring, she sparked a lively conversation about the tension between efficiency gains and the inherent value of in-person collaboration. Many industry observers raised concerns that the technology giant was eliminating important gains in employee rights, sending modern companies back to the management structure of the early twentieth century. This debate followed Meyer to a recent Wired conference where she emphasized that the Yahoo move was “the right thing for us right now.”
