Remote Workers & Teams
The concept of remote workers has been a growing trend especially in global organizations. The problem is that some organizations have approached managing remote workers the same as traditional office workers. For example, Marissa Mayer at Yahoo in 2013 required all remote workers to return to the office or be terminated. It was rumored that many of the workers were not productive and Yahoo had lost track of some even though they were still on the payroll. More recently (May,