We have this idea of modern computing that is closely tied to social media, and rightly so. Social media is a kind of glue that ties us together in new and bigger configurations than our own human capabilities. However, it is also the unspoken issue in the Yahoo brouhaha about working from home — the idea whose name shall not be spoken. How else to explain the ultra retro edict — anachronism, really — that all Yahoos must report to the brick-and-mortar in person rather than “telecommute” — another anachronism implying the possibility of only a simple bidirectional interface between the individual and the mother ship?
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2 Steps Back: The Social Revolution
Posted by: Denis Pombriant March 20, 2013 05:00 AMWe have this idea of modern computing that is closely tied to social media, and rightly so. Social media is a kind of glue that ties us together in new and bigger configurations than our own human capabilities. However, it is also the unspoken issue in the Yahoo brouhaha about working from home — the idea whose name shall not be spoken. How else to explain the ultra retro edict — anachronism, really — that all Yahoos must report to the brick-and-mortar in person rather than “telecommute” — another anachronism implying the possibility of only a simple bidirectional interface between the individual and the mother ship?