Telecommuting Not a Crucial Retention Tool, Says Harris Allied Survey

Since Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer started weaning her workforce off of telecommuting, many voices have weighed in about whether her decision was right or wrong.

FlexJobs, a website connecting workers with telecommuting jobs, offered 50 percent discounts on subscription services and touted a Stanford study claiming that telecommuting increased worker productivity by 15 percent.

On the other side of the aisle, Michael Schrage, an MIT (News - Alert) research fellow writing for the Harvard Business Review, said that Mayer’s job was to uproot practices that just weren’t working for the company.

By Jacqueline Lee, Contributing Writer for TMC