37-Year old CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer, is married to venture capitalist Zack Bogue whom she married in 2009. With only a few months in at the helm Yahoo CEO ordered and delivered a memo to all work from home employees to get their tush into an office.
You can read the memo here.
This brand spanking new mother of 1 has a net worth of $300 million and can certainly afford to hire all the help most of us only dream about.
Having flexible working arrangements which provides work-life balance for many is clearly not something she will ever have to worry about.
One can only speculate the real reason why she made this decision. A decision that will likely win her numerous accolades in the “attaboy club” but with working parents and especially working moms we feel betrayed. Nice Job Marissa. Now many of us lie in wonder if other (tech) companies will follow suit. Hopefully not.
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I really saw that as a slap in the face, being a new mom and all. And yes like you said, she’s got all the hired help she needs. This really was not a good move on her part.
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Couldn’t agree any more and she likely has other reasons that we don’t know about. Either case, there is likely tremendous impact to many families and this is what concerns me most.