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nsoonhui on May 13, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forev...

You can call me cynical, but Yahoo ( anyone still remembers that?) tried work from home, and failed. It simply didn't work out so well so the then-CEO Marissa Mayer had to ban it [outright](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/feb/25/yahoo-chi...)

mcluck on May 13, 2020 [–]

That was a number of years ago. There's been a lot more investment in tools and practices for a WFH situation since then

nsoonhui on May 13, 2020 | [–]

Technology changes, but human nature doesn't.

The temptation to slack off is ever present at home, I doubt will there ever be any technology that can solve this problem.

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